Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts

Preface (Mike Edwards and Dimos Spatharas); List of contributors; Introduction (Dimos Spatharas); Chapter 1: Storytelling in Athenian Law (Michael Gagarin); Chapter 2: Storytelling about Laws and Money: Solon on Stage (Demosthenes 24.212-214) (Catherine Psilakis); Chapter 3: The Devil's in the Detail: Including 'Irrelevant' Details in Homicide Narratives (Christine Plastow); Chapter 4: Social Norms and the Legal Framework of Forensic Narratives in Disputed Inheritance Claims (Brenda Griffith-Williams); Chapter 5: Deceptive Narratives in the Speeches of Isaeus (Mike Edwards); Chapter 6: The Story about the Jury (Peter A. O'Connell); Chapter 7: Inciting Thorubos and Narrative Strategies in Attic Forensic Speeches (Noboru Sato); Chapter 8: Political Ideology and Character Portrayal in Apollodorus' Forensic Narratives: [Dem.] 50 Against Polycles (Kostas Apostolakis); Chapter 9: Reconstructing the Past: Forensic Storytelling about the Athenian Constitution in Lysias 12 and 13 (Eleni Volonaki); Chapter 10: As If You Were There: Enargeia and Spatiality in Lysias 1 (Ruth Webb); Chapter 11: Temporal Irony in Athenian Forensic Narrative: Lysias 1 On the Murder of Eratosthenes (Victoria Wohl); Chapter 12: Narrative and Emotions in Pseudo-Demosthenes 47, Against Euergus and Mnesiboulus (Nick Fisher); Chapter 13: Truth and Deception in Athenian Forensic Narratives: An Assessment of Demosthenes 54 and Lysias 3 (Christos Kremmydas); Chapter 14: Greek Teachings about Forensic Narrative (Rosalia Hatzilambrou); Index