{"pk":54866,"title":"Thucydides' Mytilenean Debate: Fifth Century Rhetoric and its Representation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The paper will explain the significant contribution that Thucydides’ Mytilenean Debate makes to our understanding of fifth-century rhetoric and its representation: firstly, by vindicating Thucydides’ controversial methodology in his representation of speeches, of which this debate is paradigmatic; secondly, by illustrating the influence that the tradition of model forensic speeches had on these deliberative ones in form and content (i.e. arguments); and thirdly, by demonstrating the ambiguity of rhetoric’s dangerously powerful role in the political decision-making in Athens.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Forensic Speech"},{"word":"Deceit"},{"word":"Justice"},{"word":"Expediency"},{"word":"Greek"},{"word":"Rhetoric"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zv7f9zs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Fergal","middle_name":"","last_name":"McDonagh","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2013-05-08T11:33:21Z","date_accepted":"2013-05-08T11:33:21Z","date_published":"2013-09-02T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucbclassics_bujc/article/54866/galley/41399/download/"}]}