A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios

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Label

A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios

Statement of responsibility

by Brenda Griffith-Williams

Creator

• Isaeus, approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C

Contributor

• Griffith-Williams, Brenda

Author

• Isaeus, approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C

Writer of added commentary

• Griffith-Williams, Brenda

Subject

• History
• Inheritance and succession
• Inheritance and succession (Greek law)
• Inheritance and succession (Greek law)
• Inheritance and succession -- Greece | Athens -- History -- To 1500
• Isaeus, approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C
• Isaeus, approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C. -- Translations into English
• LAW -- Essays
• LAW -- General Practice
• LAW -- Jurisprudence
• LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism
• LAW -- Practical Guides
• LAW -- Reference
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Translations into English
• To 1500
• Translations
• Forensic orations
• Forensic orations -- Greece | Athens -- History -- To 1500
• Greece -- Athens

Genre

• Translations into English
• Translations
• History

Language

• eng
• grc
• eng

Summary

In 'A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios', Brenda Griffith-Williams offers a fresh insight, accessible to non-Greek readers, into four disputed inheritance cases from the Athenian courts in the 4th century B.C. The only comprehensive English language commentary on Isaios (Wyse, 1904) reflects a negative view of the Athenian legal system as one in which the judges, who had no legal training, could be easily outwitted by an unscrupulous speechwriter with no regard for the truth. By addressing the complex interplay of factual, legal, and rhetorical issues in the selected speeches, Brenda Griffith-Williams identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each speaker's case and presents a more balanced assessment of Isaios's work

Member of

• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, Supplementum, 364

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

340.5/38

Index

index present

LC call number

KL4196 .I825 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Mnemosyne, Supplements

Series volume

364