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Gunther Martin is SNSF-Professor at the University of Zurich; educated at the universities of Munich and Oxford, he has previously held posts at Oxford, Nottingham, and Berne. He is the author of books on Demosthenes, Euripides, and the historian Dexippus, and his work focuses on textual scholarship, the study of communication, and the relationship between historical reality and its representation in literary texts.

- Frontmatter
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- List of Contributors
- Tables
- 0: Gunther Martin: Introduction
- Part I. General Matters
- 1: Thomas Paulsen: Demosthenic Scholarship
- 2: Gottfried Mader: Literary Readings of Oratory
- 3: Adele C. Scafuro: Historical Readings of Oratory
- 4: Katharina Wojciech: The Place of Oratory in Fourth-Century Politics and Culture
- Part II. The Institutional Context of Oratory
- 5: Karen Piepenbrink: Public Opinion and the Arenas of Debate
- 6: Mirko Canevaro: Law and Justice
- 7: Michael Gagarin: Court Procedures and Arbitration
- 8: Susan Lape: Political Elites
- 9: Peter Hunt: Diplomacy
- Part III. The Political Context
- 10: P. J. Rhodes: Athenian Foreign Policy
- 11: Edmund M. Burke: Athenian State Finances
- 12: Leonhard Burckhardt: Military
- 13: Robert J. Nichols: Corruption
- 14: Guy Westwood: Views on the Past
- 15: Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner: Visions of Attica
- Part IV. The Social and Cultural Context
- 16: Sitta von Reden: Trade and Credit
- 17: Kostas Kapparis: The Social and Legal Position of Metics, Foreigners, and Slaves
- 18: Joseph Roisman: The Rhetoric of Social and Political Values
- 19: Winfried Schmitz: Local Communities, Neighbourhoods
- 20: S. C. Humphreys: Kinship
- 21: Hannah Willey: Religion
- 22: Robin Osborne: City and Countryside
- Part V. Demosthenes' Life
- 23: Brad L. Cook: The Biographic Tradition
- 24: Iris Samotta: Family, Formation, Extra-Political Activities
- 25: Christos Karvounis: Political Career
- 26: Noriko Sawada: Allies and Foes (I): Aeschines, Hyperides, Lycurgus
- 27: Luigi Gallo: Allies and Foes (II): Politicians without Transmitted Speeches
- Part VI. The Corpus Demosthenicum
- 28: Edward M. Harris: Speeches to the Assembly and in Public Prosecutions (Dem. 1 24)
- 29: Pietro Cobetto Ghiggia: Speeches in Private Prosecutions
- 30: Ian Worthington: The Epitaphios, Erotikos, Prooimia, and Letters
- 31: Cecil W. Wooten: Rhetorical Technique
- 32: Jeremy Trevett: Authenticity, Composition, Publication
- 33: Luciano Canfora: Afterlife (Antiquity and Byzantine Era)
- 34: Alastair Blanshard: Afterlife (Modern Era)
- 35: Gunther Martin: Transmission of the Corpus Demosthenicum
- Endmatter
- Index