55 Citations
History and the making of the orator in Demosthenes and Aeschines
- History
- 2014
This thesis aims to contribute to the study of the role of the civic past in the public discourse of fourth-century Athens. It does so by close examination of the surviving public speeches of…
HELPING BEHAVIOR IN CLASSICAL ATHENS
- PsychologyPhoenix
- 2010
Abstract:This paper explores the extent of helping behavior in classical Athens, and argues that helping was largely limited to relatives and friends and did not extend very much to fellow citizens…
The Starting-Points for Knowledge Chrysippus on How to Acquire and Fortify Insecure Apprehension
- Philosophy
- 2021
This paper examines some neglected Chrysippean fragments on insecure apprehension (κατάληψις). First, I present Chrysippus’ account of how non-Sages can begin to fortify their insecure apprehension…
Adeia in Fifth-Century Athens
- HistoryThe Journal of Hellenic Studies
- 2021
Abstract This article discusses the rationale of adeia (immunity) in the fifth-century Athenian legal system. It argues that adeia was designed to grant a temporary suspension of the effect of a law…
The Starting-Points for Knowledge
- PhilosophyPhronesis
- 2021
This paper examines some neglected Chrysippean fragments on insecure apprehension (κατάληψις). First, I present Chrysippus’ account of how non-Sages can begin to fortify their insecure apprehension…
KITTOS AND THE PHIALAI EXELEUTHERIKAI
- HistoryThe Annual of the British School at Athens
- 2019
In an oracular tablet from Dodona dating to the mid-fourth century bc, a slave named Kittos inquires whether his master, Dionysios, will set him free. A roughly contemporary entry in the Athenian…
Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash
- Philosophy
- 2019
The Authenticity of the Document at Demosth. or. 24.20–3, the Procedures of nomothesia and the so-called ἐπιχɛιροτονία τῶν νόμων
- PhilosophyKlio
- 2018
Summary This article is a response to Hansen's recent defence of the authenticity of the document at Demosth. or. 24.20–3. It discusses the methodology for assessing the authenticity of the documents…