Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Αρχαία Ελληνική ΦιλολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Dimitriou Ekaterini
Supervisors info:
Χατζηλάμπρου Ροζαλία, Αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Τομέας Κλασικής Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Λεντάκης Βασίλειος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Τομέας Κλασικής Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Καραδήμας Δημήτριος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Τομέας Κλασικής Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η ρητορική αξιοποίηση του θρησκευτικού στοιχείου στους δικανικούς λόγους του λυσιακού corpus που σώζονται ακέραιοι
Translated title:
The rhetorical use of religious material in the surviving complete forensic speeches of Lysias
Summary:
Lysias' forensic speeches cover a wide range of cases. Some cases concern religious offenses such as homicide, sacrilege, cutting down sacred olive trees, atheism and impiety. In some speeches the logographer is trying to connect the case to the religious offenses mentioned above while in others religious argumentation is absent or partially used. The trial of Socrates in 399 BC is used as reference. In what way this historical trial played a major role in deploying religious arguments in the forensic speeches of Lysias especially when the speaker lacked to present irrefutable evidence in order to win the case? Is there any particular purpose behind the rhetorical use of all religious material?
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
ancient greek religion, religious use and usage, impiety, 399 BC, trial of Socrates
