A Commentary on Apollodorus’ Against Evergus and Mnesibulus: A Case of False Witness
Nov 2023 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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This book offers the first modern commentary on an important historical and legal speech from mid fourth-century Athens. A comprehensive introduction examines in detail the life and works of the author, Apollodorus, the legal background to the case and the historical circumstances which led to it. Athens was facing a crisis in funding her fleet during wartime, and the alleged unscrupulous and illegal behaviour of the speaker’s opponent and others like him posed a real threat to her security. The extensive commentary aims to explain the intricate legal issues raised by the speech, as well as uncovering the clever rhetorical strategies employed by the speaker. The book offers a new English translation to accompany the Greek text, thereby facilitating access for non-classicists. The speech will be of interest to political and legal historians, as well as those interested in the history of rhetoric, and is designed for use by students and academics alike.
About the author
Eleni Volonaki is Tenured Assistant Professor of Greek Literature in the Faculty of Philology, University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She earned her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, with a thesis entitled “A Commentary on Lysias’ speeches, Against Agoratus (13) and Against Nikomachus (30)”. She has written numerous articles and chapters on Greek rhetoric and oratory, reception in antiquity, Attic law, and drama; and she has organized several international conferences. Her interests lie in politics, democracy, civic and social ideology, rhetoric, and moral values and institutions of classical Greece and their modern reception.
Michael Edwards is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly Professor of Classics in the Universities of London, Wales and Roehampton, and in London was Acting Dean of the School of Advanced Study and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. He was President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, an Onassis Overseas Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the British School at Athens. He has published extensively on the Attic orators.
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