Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation

Eugenio Amato, Francesco Citti, Bart Huelsenbeck, Eugenio Amato, Francesco Citti, Bart Huelsenbeck

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9783110402087
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Literature

Ancient declamation—the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios—defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics.

Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and Lupi explore social roles—their tensions and expectations—as defined through declamation. With similar emphasis on historical circumstances, Quiroga Puertas and Tomassi consider the adaptation of rhetorical material to frame contemporary realities. Schwartz draws attention to the sometimes hazy borderline between declamation and the courtroom. The relationship between laws and declamation, a topic of abiding importance, is examined in studies by Berti, Breij, and Johansson. Also with an eye to the complex interaction between laws and declamation, Pasetti offers a narratological analysis of cases of poisoning. Citti discovers the concept of natural law represented in declamatory material. While looking at a case of extreme cruelty, Huelsenbeck evaluates the nature of declamatory language, emphasizing its use as an integral instrument of performance events. Zinsmaier looks at discourse on the topic of torture in rhetorical and legal contexts.

General Index

abdicatio, apokeryxis, disowning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19–20, 21; (Lucian’s Abdicatus) 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27

actio

– adfectatae tyrannidis (attempted tyranny) 1, 2, s. tyrant

– aquae pluviae arcendae 1, 2

– circumscriptionis (fraud) 1, 2

– conscientiae (complicity) 1, 2, 3

– damni per iniuriam dati 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

– dementiae 1, 2, 3

– de moribus 1

– de vi (violence) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

– ingrati (ingratitude) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

– inscripti maleficii 1, 2

– maiestatis 1, 2

– malae tractationis (ill–treatment) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

– parricidii s. parricide

– proditionis (treason) 1, 2

– reipublicae laesae 1, 2, 3, 4

– rei uxoriae 1, 2

– veneficii s. poisoning

adultery, adulterer, adulteress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,

aequitas, aequum, equity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; (a. naturalis) 18, 19, 20

ambiguity, ambiguitas 1 (of the law), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

anticategoria s. status

antinomia s. leges contrariae

antithesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

apokeryxis s. abdicatio

blindness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

cannibalism 1, 2

characters s. adulterer, concubinage, magician, medicus, pirate, priest, prostitute, rape, stepmother, stepson, tyrannycide, tyrant

concubinage, concubine prisoner 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

coniectura s. status

color 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

damage, damnum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

definitio s. status

dialexis, prologos s. prolalia

diegema 1

Digest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

divisio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

divorce, divortium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

doctor s. medicus

ekphrasis 1, 2, 3, 4

encomium 1, 2, s. laus

Epicurus, Epicureans 1

equity s. aequitas

ethological declamation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

ethopoiia 1, 2, 3

exemplum, exemplarity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

exile 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

exposure 1, 2

fiction, fictional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46; s. plasma

formulaic language 1–2

fortune (misfortune), fortuna, tyche 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

homicide 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

hypophora, expected objection 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

ill-treatment s. actio malae tractationis

impersonation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

incest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

infanticide 1

ingratitude 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

inheritance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,

koinos topos, s. locus communis

laus legis 1, 2

law

– natural, common 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7

– unwritten 1, 2–3, 4

– lex Aelia Sestia 1

– lex Aquilia 1, 2

– lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

– lex Iliaca 1, 2

– lex Iulia de vi (for violence) 1, 2, 3

– lex Iulia de adulteriis (on adulteries) 1, 2, 3

– lex Pomp eia de parricidiis, 1, 2

– lex raptarum 1, 2, 3

– lex Sentia 1

leges contrariae, antinomia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

locus communis, topos 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

magician, magic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

marriage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

medicus, medicine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

meretrix, s. prostitute

metaphor 1, 2, 3

misanthrope 1, 2, 3

mutilation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, s. blindness

myth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

noverca, s. stepmother

oracle 1, 2, 3, 4

papyri (declamatory evidence in) 1, 2, 3, 4

parricide, parricidium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

paradox, paradoxical situation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

parody 1, 2

patria potestas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

personification 1, 2

pestilence 1

pietas, piety 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

piracy, pirates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

plasma 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, s. fiction

poisoning, venenum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

pragmatike stasis s. status

priest, priestess 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

probolé 1

proditio s. actio proditionis

progymnasma, preliminary exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

prolalia 1, 2

prophecy 1, 2, 3

prosangelia, self-denunciation 1, 2, 3

proscriptus, proscribed 1, 2, 3

prosopopoiia, 1, s. ...

Table of contents

• Law & Literature
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
• Law in Declamation: The status legales in Senecan controversiae
• Shared Speech in the Collection of the Elder Seneca (Contr. 10.4): Towards a Study of Common Literary Passages as Community Interaction
• Forensic Intrusion into the Schools of Rhetoric: A Reading of Cassius Severus’ Attack on Cestius Pius
• Ambiguous Silence:stuprum and pudicitia in Latin Declamation
• Quaedam iura non lege, sed natura: Nature and Natural Law in Roman Declamation
• Parricidii sit actio: Killing the Father in Roman Declamation
• Cases of Poisoning in Greek and Roman Declamation
• Truth by Force? Torture as Evidence in Ancient Rhetoric and Roman Law
• The Law in the Major DeclamationsAscribed to Quintilian
• Tyrants and Tyrannicides: Between Literary Creation and Contemporary Reality in Greek Declamation
• Nature over Law: Themes of Disowning in Libanius’ Declamations
• Demosthenes’ Moral and Legal Arguments in Libanius’ Declamations
• Two Laws, Two Loves: Generational Conflict Between a Father and His Son in Choricius’Declamations 5 and 6
• Contributors
• Index of Ancient Names
• Index of Modern Names
• General Index