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Book Number
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000275547
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ISBN
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 9789004258570 (hd.bd.)
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9789004260184 (e-book)
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ISSN
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0169-8958
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Main Entry
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Isaeus, ca. 420-ca. 350 B.C.
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Title
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A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios / by Brenda Griffith-Williams.
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Imprint
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Leiden : Brill, 2013.
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Descr.
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xx, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Series
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( Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature ; 364)
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Language
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eng
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Gen. note
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Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - University of London, 2009.
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.
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Abstract
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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.
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Per.Sub.
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Isaeus, ca. 420-ca. 350 B.C. -- Translations into English
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Inheritance and succession (Greek law)
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Inheritance and succession -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
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Forensic orations -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Translations into English
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Add.Entry
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Griffith-Williams, Brenda
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