Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics - 9781138570863

Taylor & Francis

Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and PoliticsAuthor(s): Andreas Serafim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138570863, 978-1138570863\nSynopsis\nThe book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public speaking and persuasion. \n\nSerafim focuses on how the intersections between such religious discourse and the political, legal and civic institutions of classical Athens help to shed new light on polis identity-building and the construction of an imagined community in three institutional contexts the law court, the Assembly and the Boul?: a community that unites its members and defines the ways in which they make decisions. After a full-scale survey of the persistently and recurrently used feature.