Christopher Carey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Carey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Carey |
| SIGNATURE | CAREY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Law, Speech-Writers, and Rhetorical Context
This chapter discusses the role of speechwriters and the nature of argument in the Athenian courts. Starting with the means of persuasion recognized in ancient rhetorical writing and the nature of the task faced by the litigant in Athenian courts, it proceeds to examine in detail the structure of speeches delivered before the courts, the role of the individual components of the speech, and the manner of presentation. Finally, it addresses the ris…
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies…
Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts
This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athe…
Rhetoric in (the other) Menander
This chapter focuses on Menander who straddles the Classical and Hellenistic periods. It argues that audiences in the Hellenistic period could not only recognize but also appreciate rhetorical forms and their subtle manipulation in Menander's plays. In examining a selection of his comedies, the chapter maintains that rhetorical ‘markers’, as used in formal contexts and as taught in the schools and handbooks, form an integral key to unlocking thei…
Erôs in Ancient Greece
This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. These topics build on recent …
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Trials from Classical Athens
Trials from Classical Athens presents a selection of key forensic speeches with new translations and lucid explanatory notes, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments and a discussion of the legal issues raised. Carey offers a diverse repertory of legal case studies which deal with different aspects of Athenian law. The volume provides a unique and accessible introduction to the Athenian legal system and how the system reveals the …
Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
The shape of Athenian laws
The title is unashamedly plagiarized from Stephen Todd's excellent book, The Shape of Athenian Law . The plagiarism is slightly misleading, however, since my interest is in law as enactment ( Gesetz ) while Todd's title expresses his interest in law as system ( Recht ). The issue I wish to address is the formulation of written laws in Athens during the late archaic and classical period, specifically the balance between procedural and substantive …
Demosthenes and His Time
Artless’ Proofs in Aristotle and the Orators
L'A. etudie la distinction qu'opere Aristote entre les preuves artificielles et les preuves non artificielles en rhetorique. Il s'agit de comprendre cette distinction terminologique a la lumiere de la pratique oratoire de l'epoque pre-rhetorique (V e et IV e siecles av JC), qui accorde une place preponderante a l'evidence, l'emotion et l'argumentation dans les tribunaux atheniens
Pindar's Homer
Lysias
The Greek prose writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century BC. Six of his professional legal speeches are selected in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and because the language is accessible even to the comparative beginner. In his introduction Dr Carey discusses Lysias' life and place in the evolution of Greek prose style, and the development of Greek rheto…
Two Transitions in Pindar
This paper addresses itself to two transitional passages in Pindar which are frequently misunderstood. In both we appear at first sight to have an awkward change of direction, with the myth terminated abruptly and the following item of praise merely juxtaposed. In reality, both transitions are effected smoothly, and the same technique is employed in both odes
Prosopographica Pindarica
Pindar's Eighth Olympian celebrates the victory of Alkimedon of Aigina in the boys' wrestling at Olympia in 460. This victory was the sixth won by a member of this family (line 76). The absence of detail about most of these victories suggests that the family had had little success in the great Panhellenic competitions and that the majority were won at minor festivals. However, one of the remaining five victories was certainly won in one of the fo…
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
Erôs in Ancient Greece
This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. These topics build on recent …
Trials from Classical Athens
Trials from Classical Athens presents a selection of key forensic speeches with new translations and lucid explanatory notes, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments and a discussion of the legal issues raised. Carey offers a diverse repertory of legal case studies which deal with different aspects of Athenian law. The volume provides a unique and accessible introduction to the Athenian legal system and how the system reveals the …
Prosopographica Pindarica
Pindar's Eighth Olympian celebrates the victory of Alkimedon of Aigina in the boys' wrestling at Olympia in 460. This victory was the sixth won by a member of this family (line 76). The absence of detail about most of these victories suggests that the family had had little success in the great Panhellenic competitions and that the majority were won at minor festivals. However, one of the remaining five victories was certainly won in one of the fo…
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies…
The shape of Athenian laws
The title is unashamedly plagiarized from Stephen Todd's excellent book, The Shape of Athenian Law . The plagiarism is slightly misleading, however, since my interest is in law as enactment ( Gesetz ) while Todd's title expresses his interest in law as system ( Recht ). The issue I wish to address is the formulation of written laws in Athens during the late archaic and classical period, specifically the balance between procedural and substantive …
Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts
This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athe…
Pindar's Homer
Two Transitions in Pindar
This paper addresses itself to two transitional passages in Pindar which are frequently misunderstood. In both we appear at first sight to have an awkward change of direction, with the myth terminated abruptly and the following item of praise merely juxtaposed. In reality, both transitions are effected smoothly, and the same technique is employed in both odes
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
Two Transitions in Pindar
This paper addresses itself to two transitional passages in Pindar which are frequently misunderstood. In both we appear at first sight to have an awkward change of direction, with the myth terminated abruptly and the following item of praise merely juxtaposed. In reality, both transitions are effected smoothly, and the same technique is employed in both odes
Prosopographica Pindarica
Pindar's Eighth Olympian celebrates the victory of Alkimedon of Aigina in the boys' wrestling at Olympia in 460. This victory was the sixth won by a member of this family (line 76). The absence of detail about most of these victories suggests that the family had had little success in the great Panhellenic competitions and that the majority were won at minor festivals. However, one of the remaining five victories was certainly won in one of the fo…
Lysias
The Greek prose writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century BC. Six of his professional legal speeches are selected in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and because the language is accessible even to the comparative beginner. In his introduction Dr Carey discusses Lysias' life and place in the evolution of Greek prose style, and the development of Greek rheto…
Pindar's Homer
Artless’ Proofs in Aristotle and the Orators
L'A. etudie la distinction qu'opere Aristote entre les preuves artificielles et les preuves non artificielles en rhetorique. Il s'agit de comprendre cette distinction terminologique a la lumiere de la pratique oratoire de l'epoque pre-rhetorique (V e et IV e siecles av JC), qui accorde une place preponderante a l'evidence, l'emotion et l'argumentation dans les tribunaux atheniens
Demosthenes and His Time
The shape of Athenian laws
The title is unashamedly plagiarized from Stephen Todd's excellent book, The Shape of Athenian Law . The plagiarism is slightly misleading, however, since my interest is in law as enactment ( Gesetz ) while Todd's title expresses his interest in law as system ( Recht ). The issue I wish to address is the formulation of written laws in Athens during the late archaic and classical period, specifically the balance between procedural and substantive …
The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Trials from Classical Athens
Trials from Classical Athens presents a selection of key forensic speeches with new translations and lucid explanatory notes, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments and a discussion of the legal issues raised. Carey offers a diverse repertory of legal case studies which deal with different aspects of Athenian law. The volume provides a unique and accessible introduction to the Athenian legal system and how the system reveals the …
Rhetoric in (the other) Menander
This chapter focuses on Menander who straddles the Classical and Hellenistic periods. It argues that audiences in the Hellenistic period could not only recognize but also appreciate rhetorical forms and their subtle manipulation in Menander's plays. In examining a selection of his comedies, the chapter maintains that rhetorical ‘markers’, as used in formal contexts and as taught in the schools and handbooks, form an integral key to unlocking thei…
Erôs in Ancient Greece
This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. These topics build on recent …
Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts
This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athe…
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies…
Law, Speech-Writers, and Rhetorical Context
This chapter discusses the role of speechwriters and the nature of argument in the Athenian courts. Starting with the means of persuasion recognized in ancient rhetorical writing and the nature of the task faced by the litigant in Athenian courts, it proceeds to examine in detail the structure of speeches delivered before the courts, the role of the individual components of the speech, and the manner of presentation. Finally, it addresses the ris…
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