This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research.
The politics of naming and individuals' rhetorical identities. Civic and local identities in Athenian rhetoric / Roger Brock -- The two Mantitheuses in Demosthenes 39 and [Demosthenes] 40: a case of Athenian identity theft? / Brenda Griffith-Williams -- Constructing the identity…
"Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or mani…
Introduction: spectrum of statuses -- Chattel slaves -- Privileged chattel slaves -- Freedmen with conditional freedom -- Metics (metoikoi) -- Privileged metics -- Bastards (nothoi) -- Disenfranchised citizens (atimoi) -- Naturalized citizens -- Full citizens: female -- Full cit…
"Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first compreh…