TY  - GEN
T1  - A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios
T2  - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
A1  - Isaeus, approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C
LA  - English
LA  - Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn858861650
AB  - In 'A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios', Brenda Griffith-Williams offers a fresh insight, accessible to non-Greek readers, into four disputed inheritance cases from the Athenian courts in the 4th century B.C. The only comprehensive English language commentary on Isaios (Wyse, 1904) reflects a negative view of the Athenian legal system as one in which the judges, who had no legal training, could be easily outwitted by an unscrupulous speechwriter with no regard for the truth. By addressing the complex interplay of factual, legal, and rhetorical issues in the selected speeches, Brenda Griffith-Williams identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each speaker's case and presents a more balanced assessment of Isaios's work.
NO  - Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, University of London - 2009.
CN  - KL4196 .I825 2013
SN  - 9789004260184
SN  - 9004260188
SN  - 9789004258570
SN  - 9004258574
KW  - Isaeus, : approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C. : Translations into English.
KW  - Isaeus, : approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C.
KW  - Inheritance and succession (Greek law)
KW  - Inheritance and succession : Greece : Athens : History : To 1500.
KW  - Forensic orations : Greece : Athens : History : To 1500.
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek : Translations into English.
KW  - Successions et héritages (Droit grec)
KW  - LAW : Essays.
KW  - LAW : General Practice.
KW  - LAW : Jurisprudence.
KW  - LAW : Paralegals & Paralegalism.
KW  - LAW : Practical Guides.
KW  - LAW : Reference.
KW  - Forensic orations
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
KW  - Greece : Athens
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History
KW  - Translations
ER  -