Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos

Jebb examines the Attic orators' lives, works, and historical contexts and argues for their centrality to Greek literature.

Richard Claverhouse Jebb (Author)

9781108011792, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 June 2010

504 pages
21.6 x 2.9 x 14 cm, 0.64 kg

Sir Richard Claverhouse (R. C.) Jebb (1841–1905) was a prominent classical scholar and politician. Jebb was University Orator at Cambridge before becoming Professor of Greek at Glasgow in 1875, and eventually returning to Cambridge as Regius Professor. His many publications include books on Greek oratory, Homer, and modern Greece as well as editions of ancient Greek drama. The two-volume Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos (1876) was written with two primary objectives: to attend to a significant but often neglected element of Greek literature, Attic prose oratory, and to situate that oratory within its social and political contexts. Jebb analyses a number of rhetors from the period before Demosthenes, providing a thorough overview of the genre during this 'best period of Athens'. Volume 2 focuses on the lives, historical contexts, and works of Isokrates and Isaeos before examining the decline and revival of Greek oratory.

12. Isokrates - life
13. Isokrates - his theory of culture
14. Isokrates - style
15. Isokrates - works
16. Isokrates - works
17. Isokrates - works
18. Isokrates - works
19. Isaeos - life
20. Isaeos - style
21. Isaeos - works
22. The matured civil eloquence
23. Retrospect
24. The decline and the revival
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]