Guy Westwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5641497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Westwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Westwood |
| SIGNATURE | WESTWOOD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Merton College, University of OxfordUK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rhetoric of the Graphē Paranomōn in the Trial on the Crown
This chapter re-examines the legal bases of the trial of Ctesiphon on the crown – the formal terms of Ctesiphon’s proposal and of Aeschines’ indictment – and their rhetorical deployment by Aeschines and Demosthenes. It shows that the critical element of the case that enables both orators to sustain a close relationship between legal and rhetorical concerns is their common assumption that one of Aeschines’ accusations is the most important: that D…
Changing the Sail
Concentrating on Propertius 3.21 in particular, this article identifies a previously unnoticed network of allusions by three Roman poets (Catullus, Propertius and Ovid) to one another and to Book 1 of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica . It shows that these intertextual links are pivoted on the three poets’ common use of the verse-ending lintea malo in scenes of departure by sea, and on their common interest in framing other aspects of the nautical …
The Embassy Trial
Chapter 5 discusses the ‘Embassy trial’ of 343 BC, where we have extant speech texts by Demosthenes ( On the False Embassy ) and Aeschines ( On the Embassy ), prosecutor and defendant respectively. It shows how each orator crafts his historical material to respond at the level of technique and/or content to his opponent’s figurations of the past at the previous stage of the encounter. Chapter 5.1 offers an introduction and overview which assesses…
Demosthenes’ Assembly Speeches
Chapter 3 examines Demosthenes’ use of the past in his Assembly speeches (including, for example, the Philippics and Olynthiacs ), spanning the period from 355/4 to 341 BC. The chapter plots Demosthenes’ increasing agility in handling the past and his increasing investment in its persuasive potential over that period, as he builds a consistent self-characterization as a farsighted, optimistic, and impeccably democratic and well-intentioned symbou…
The Crown Trial
Chapter 6 discusses the ‘Crown trial’ of 330 BC, the other major court clash between Aeschines (prosecutor) and Demosthenes (defending his associate Ctesiphon) for which we have extant speech texts from each side. The chapter shows that part of the success of On the Crown lies in Demosthenes’ ability to find ways to capitalize on the strategic error Aeschines had made in assuming that reviving the modes of accusation used in the Embassy trial cou…
Demosthenes’ Early Career
Chapter 2 begins the case studies by examining Demosthenes’ four speeches from the 350s BC: one for personal delivery ( Against Leptines ) and three for delivery by others ( Against Androtion, Against Timocrates , and Against Aristocrates ). The chapter argues that Demosthenes’ use of historical material in Against Leptines is part of a wide-ranging assault on what the orator constructs as an atrophied political consensus, whose members’ defectiv…
Against Meidias and Against Timarchus
Chapter 4 juxtaposes two law-court speeches from the mid-340s: Demosthenes’ Against Meidias and Aeschines’ Against Timarchus . In both speeches, Demosthenes and Aeschines are applying the city’s past to cases where the defendant in question had to be judged as a moral as well as a political actor. Chapter 4.1 offers an introduction and overview of the two speeches and trials. Chapter 4.2 shows how Demosthenes concentrates attention on an extended…
The Orators and the Athenian Past
Chapter 1 is divided into seven sections which address different topics of guiding importance for the content and argument of the work as a whole; some can also be read as free-standing discussions of the topics they cover. Chapter 1.1 examines the mnemonic function of public statuary in classical Athens and situates it within a civic memorial landscape which helped shape how ordinary Athenians thought about their past. Chapter 1.2 looks at some …
Conclusion
The Conclusion falls into two halves. First, it briefly surveys the immediate historical context of Demosthenes’ Letters from self-imposed exile in or near Troezen, the subsequent Lamian War against the Macedonians, and Demosthenes’ death. It then concisely examines a key passage from the Second Letter as part of a brief exploration of the possibility that Demosthenes was (or became, later in life) genuinely invested in the historical models he u…
The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city’s past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines—both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals—as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at t…
Demosthenes and the Islands
Plutarch’s Aesion
The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city’s past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines—both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals—as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at t…
Plutarch’s Aesion
Demosthenes and the Islands
The Embassy Trial
Chapter 5 discusses the ‘Embassy trial’ of 343 BC, where we have extant speech texts by Demosthenes ( On the False Embassy ) and Aeschines ( On the Embassy ), prosecutor and defendant respectively. It shows how each orator crafts his historical material to respond at the level of technique and/or content to his opponent’s figurations of the past at the previous stage of the encounter. Chapter 5.1 offers an introduction and overview which assesses…
Demosthenes’ Assembly Speeches
Chapter 3 examines Demosthenes’ use of the past in his Assembly speeches (including, for example, the Philippics and Olynthiacs ), spanning the period from 355/4 to 341 BC. The chapter plots Demosthenes’ increasing agility in handling the past and his increasing investment in its persuasive potential over that period, as he builds a consistent self-characterization as a farsighted, optimistic, and impeccably democratic and well-intentioned symbou…
The Crown Trial
Chapter 6 discusses the ‘Crown trial’ of 330 BC, the other major court clash between Aeschines (prosecutor) and Demosthenes (defending his associate Ctesiphon) for which we have extant speech texts from each side. The chapter shows that part of the success of On the Crown lies in Demosthenes’ ability to find ways to capitalize on the strategic error Aeschines had made in assuming that reviving the modes of accusation used in the Embassy trial cou…
Demosthenes’ Early Career
Chapter 2 begins the case studies by examining Demosthenes’ four speeches from the 350s BC: one for personal delivery ( Against Leptines ) and three for delivery by others ( Against Androtion, Against Timocrates , and Against Aristocrates ). The chapter argues that Demosthenes’ use of historical material in Against Leptines is part of a wide-ranging assault on what the orator constructs as an atrophied political consensus, whose members’ defectiv…
Against Meidias and Against Timarchus
Chapter 4 juxtaposes two law-court speeches from the mid-340s: Demosthenes’ Against Meidias and Aeschines’ Against Timarchus . In both speeches, Demosthenes and Aeschines are applying the city’s past to cases where the defendant in question had to be judged as a moral as well as a political actor. Chapter 4.1 offers an introduction and overview of the two speeches and trials. Chapter 4.2 shows how Demosthenes concentrates attention on an extended…
The Orators and the Athenian Past
Chapter 1 is divided into seven sections which address different topics of guiding importance for the content and argument of the work as a whole; some can also be read as free-standing discussions of the topics they cover. Chapter 1.1 examines the mnemonic function of public statuary in classical Athens and situates it within a civic memorial landscape which helped shape how ordinary Athenians thought about their past. Chapter 1.2 looks at some …
Conclusion
The Conclusion falls into two halves. First, it briefly surveys the immediate historical context of Demosthenes’ Letters from self-imposed exile in or near Troezen, the subsequent Lamian War against the Macedonians, and Demosthenes’ death. It then concisely examines a key passage from the Second Letter as part of a brief exploration of the possibility that Demosthenes was (or became, later in life) genuinely invested in the historical models he u…
The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city’s past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines—both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals—as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at t…
Changing the Sail
Concentrating on Propertius 3.21 in particular, this article identifies a previously unnoticed network of allusions by three Roman poets (Catullus, Propertius and Ovid) to one another and to Book 1 of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica . It shows that these intertextual links are pivoted on the three poets’ common use of the verse-ending lintea malo in scenes of departure by sea, and on their common interest in framing other aspects of the nautical …
The Rhetoric of the Graphē Paranomōn in the Trial on the Crown
This chapter re-examines the legal bases of the trial of Ctesiphon on the crown – the formal terms of Ctesiphon’s proposal and of Aeschines’ indictment – and their rhetorical deployment by Aeschines and Demosthenes. It shows that the critical element of the case that enables both orators to sustain a close relationship between legal and rhetorical concerns is their common assumption that one of Aeschines’ accusations is the most important: that D…
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