History in [Demosthenes] 59
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9324938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Trevett (Corpus Christi College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 407-420 |
| Publication date | 1990-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800042981 |
| OpenAlex | W2099148715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 18 |
It is well known that Athenian orators, when they made reference to the historical past, usually eschewed prolonged narrative in favour of brief allusions to familiar episodes from Athenian history. Perhaps the most striking exception to this custom is the long and detailed account of fifth-century Plataean history in the pseudo-Demosthenic speech Against Neaera (Dem. 59.94–103). The main interest of this passage, however, lies not in its divergence from contemporary rhetorical practice, but in its clear reliance on Thucydides for its account of the siege of Plataea during the Peloponnesian War. Indeed, it is unique in Attic oratory in the extent of its reliance on an identifiable historical work. Yet, considering its significance, this passage has received very little scholarly attention, and merits a closer reexamination
Ancient history · Art · Divergence (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Rhetorical question · Siege · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
Historicizing Fertility
Time for the polis
Lycurgus of Boutadai
IV ‘City is history incarnate’
Metamorphoses of Tradition
Epilogue
Dynamics of the Greek ‘Breakthrough’
Making a business of time
A Sense of Agency
Persuasion and plausibility
The world outside the polis
Classics and Colonialism
Lyric Oblivion
Memory, the Orators, and the Public in Fourth-century bc Athens
Economies of Memory in Greek Tragedy
Plotinus on Memory, Recollection and Discursive Thought
The Place and Nature of Memory in Greek Historiography
The Greek Philosophers on How to Memorise – and Learn
Aristophanes and his Muses, or Memory in a Comic Key
Plotinus
Hellenistic Cultural Memory
Claudius Aelianus
Is Memory of the Past?
Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
Greek Memories
Brasidas and Thucydides
Making Time for the Past
The fourth-century and Hellenistic reception of Thucydides
The Strangeness of Gods
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 5
Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Revised Edition)
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
Further Greek Epigrams
ΚΛΗΡΩΣΙΣ ΕΚ ΠΡΟΚΡΙΤΩΝ in Fourth-Century Athens
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
More Essays in Greek History and Literature
Administration of Justice in the Delphic Amphictyony
Autochthony and the Athenians
More Essays in Greek History and Literature
The South Frieze of the Nike Temple and the Marathon Painting in the Painted Stoa
Herodotos the Historian, His Problems, Methods and Originality
| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 1,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |