Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens: Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell [Hardcover]

An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and careful use of evidence and deep awareness of social and historical contexts, the essays aspire to standards set by their distinguished honorand, Professor D.M. MacDowell.Acknowledgements Introduction D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox D.M. MacDowell: List of Publications PART I: LAW 1. Aspects of oral law in archaic Greece - Ilias Arnaoutoglou2. Writing Athenian law - Michael Gagarin3. Law of procedure in Attic inscriptions - Gerhard Thur4. Contracts in Athens - David C. MirhadyPART II: RHETORIC AND POLITICS 5. Textual arguments for the date of the In Alcibiadem in the Corpus of Andokides - Luisa Prandi6. Antiphon the revolutionary - Michael J. Edwards7. Revisiting the herms and the mysteries - S.C. Todd8. Andocides' defence and MacDowell's solution -Edwin Carawan9. Lysias for pleasure? - Stephen Usher10. Antiphon's daughter - Christopher Carey11. Isokrates for hire: Some preliminaries to a commentary on Isokrates 16-21 - David Whitehead12. Stirring up dicastic anger - Lene RubinsteinPART III: COMEDY 13. Comedy and the unspeakable - Alan H. Sommerstein14. Aristophanes and the Athenian assembly - P.J. Rhodes15. The limits of allegory and allusion in Aristophanes -Sir Kenneth Dover16. From sacrifice to feast: a ritual pattern in Aristophanic comedy - Pavlos Sfyroeras17. Menander's Epitrepontes in the light of the new papyri - W.G. ArnottIndexD.L. Cairns received his PhD from the University of Glasgow, under the direction of D.M. MacDowell and A.F. Garvie. R.A. Knox l³I