The Lives of Lycurgus: Self-Commemoration in Fourth-Century Athens
By Mitchell H. Parks
Despite his self-effacing pose in his only surviving speech (Against Leocrates), Lycurgus of Butadae was keen to further his own legacy and employed multiple strategies of self-commemoration. In this paper, I interpret one of his lost speeches, Lyc. fr.1, as a work of literary autobiography on the model of Isocrates’ Antidosis.
Making Necessity of a Virtue: Hidden Value Judgments in Forensic Suggnōmē
By Ted Parker
My talk examines a few exceptional uses of the value of suggnōmē (“pardon”) in the speeches of Demosthenes (19.238-9; 21.74-5; 24.67, .200). What sets these passages apart from more typical deployments of suggnōmē in Athenian forensic oratory are the strong, pointedly extra-legal value judgments they imply.
The Trierarchy, Financial Syndication, and Impersonal Intermediation
By Andrew Foster
The Trierarchy, Financial Syndication, and Impersonal Intermediation
Insults and status negotiation in the Athenian agora
By Deborah Kamen
The agora in Classical Athens was a site that brought together people of all socioeconomic and legal statuses, where distinctions between citizen, metic, and slave were blurred (Vlassopoulos 2007) and individuals contested over status (Millett 1998). In this paper, I argue that one important way in which status negotiation took place was through insults of various kinds.