Ancient declamation defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. Only within the past few decades the complexity of declamation and the promise inherent in its study have come to be recognized. The book contains 13 essays from international scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of ancient declamation, focusing on the interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics.
Author(s): Eugenio Amato, Francesco Citti, Bart Huelsenbeck
Series: Law & Literature 10
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: VI+356
Eugenio Amato, Francesco Citti, and Bart Huelsenbeck: Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
Emanuele Berti: Law in Declamation: The status legales in Senecan controversiae
Bart Huelsenbeck: Shared Speech in the Collection of the Elder Seneca (Contr. 10.4): Towards a Study of Common Literary Passages as Community Interaction
Pablo Schwartz: Forensic Intrusion into the Schools of Rhetoric: A Reading of Cassius Severus’ Attack on Cestius Pius
Graziana Brescia: Ambiguous Silence: stuprum and pudicitia in Latin Declamation
Francesco Citti: Quaedam iura non lege, sed natura: Nature and Natural Law in Roman Declamation
Mario Lentano: Parricidii sit actio: Killing the Father in Roman Declamation
Lucia Pasetti: Cases of Poisoning in Greek and Roman Declamation
Thomas Zinsmaier: Truth by Force? Torture as Evidence in Ancient Rhetoric and Roman Law
Bé Breij: The Law in the Major Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian
Gianluigi Tomassi: Tyrants and Tyrannicides: Between Literary Creation and Contemporary Reality in Greek Declamation
Mikael Johansson: Nature over Law: Themes of Disowning in Libanius’ Declamations
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas: Demosthenes’ Moral and Legal Arguments in Libanius’ Declamations
Simona Lupi: Two Laws, Two Loves: Generational Conflict Between a Father and His Son in Choricius’ Declamations 5 and 6
