Demostene, Contro Leptine : Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento Storico
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 48291923
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110497267
- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110488685
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the result of a decade of research on Athenian law, society and institutions, and on Attic oratory and Demosthenes' public speeches in particular. The book provides an in-depth study of the speech as a document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law, public economy, euergetism and the Athenian honour system. The introduction and commentary offer a comprehensive treatment of all these aspects, in the process engaging with virtually every source available (literary as well as epigraphical) for fourth-century Athens, as well as with a sprawling bibliography spanning several centuries.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The book offers an introduction, translation and commentary of the earliest political speech delivered by Demosthenes, the Against Leptines. It studies the speech as a historical document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law, judicial practices and public economy. It sheds light on the institution of nomothesia, on Athenian euergetism and the economy of honour, and on the workings of, and debates on, fiscal policy.
