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In this book, a revised version of his Oxford DPhil thesis, Gunther Martin explores the use of religious arguments in the speeches of Demosthenes and some of his contemporaries.
His aim is to examine how and why such arguments were deployed, rather than use the speeches as evidence for what the Athenians “really believed”. This is the first extensive discussion of religion in the speeches of the Attic orators, and breaks interesting new ground.
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The book is organized into two parts, each with its own introduction and conclusion. The first, and longer, part (chapters 1-5) deals with speeches for public trials ( graphai), the second part (chapters 6-9) with deliberative speeches and speeches for private suits ( dikai).
Within Part I, Martin discusses first (chapters 1-3) the three long speeches that Demosthenes delivered in person (Dem. 18, 19, 20); then (chapter 4) three speeches that he wrote for others (Dem. 22-24); and finally (chapter 5) a number of sp
