Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society

Hilary J. C. Lehmann is an associate professor of classics at Knox College (Illinois). Her research focuses on representations of home and family in Athenian rhetoric, intersections of mobility and identity in Athenian drama, and narrative desire in Herodotus and the ancient Greek novel.Christine Plastow is a senior lecturer in classical studies at the Open University, UK. Her research has two main strands: the study of Athenian forensic oratory from rhetorical, socio-historical, and legal perspectives and practice as-research work on the theatrical reception of myth.

• List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 HILARY J. C. LEHMANN AND CHRISTINE PLASTOW 1 Identification of citizen women in the Attic orators: a reconsideration from Demosthenes 27–29 and 44 15 NICOLAS SIRON 2 Women and place in the speeches of Isaios 36 ALLISON GLAZEBROOK 3 Do you even lift, bro? Sport and embodied masculinities in the Attic orators 56 JESSICA PENNY EVANS 4 The stammering barbarian: the body politics of villainy in the speeches of Aeschines 79 ALLISON DAS 5 Punishing the disadvantaged: status-defining penalties and their ideology in classical Athens 95 JANEK KUCHARSKI 6 The portrayal of slaves in forensic oratory and the connection with enslaved people in real life 113 ELENI VOLONAKI 7 Labour, agency, and the condition of slaves and freedpersons in 4th-century Athens 133 JAVAL COLEMAN 8 Metics across boundaries: inhabitants’ polis and spatial narratives in Athenian forensic oratory 154 MENGZHEN YUE 9 The spaces of insult in the corpus of Attic orators 183 JEAN-NOËL ALLARD 10 Reimagined space in the orators 196 GUY WESTWOOD 11 Space and reconciliation in Athens after the Thirty 216 CHRISTINE PLASTOW 12 Topographies of affection: the space of kinship in Athenian inheritance speeches 232 HILARY J. C. LEHMANN 13 Domestic space and Aphobus’ guilt in Demosthenes 27, The First Speech Against Aphobus 252 PETER A. O’CONNELL Index 273