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From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenians maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including common rumors about a defendant's character & ...

From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenians maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including common rumors about a defendant's character & testimony, obtained under torture, of slaves against their masters. She describes Athenian "policing" as a form of social control that took place across a range of private & public levels. Not only does policing appear to have been a collective enterprise, but its methods were embedded in a variety of social institutions, resulting in the blurring of the line between state & society. Hunter's inquiry into topics such as household authority, disputes among kin, the presence of slaves in the house, gossip in the home & neighborhood, & forms of public punishment reveals a continuum extending from self-regulation among kin to punitive actions enforced by the state. Recognizing the bias of legal documents toward the wealthy, Hunter concentrates on exposing the voices of the less powerful & less privileged members of society, including women & slaves. In so doing she is among the first to address systematically such important issues as the authority of women, self-help, & corporal punishment.

"In this new work Stephen Tracy continues to demonstrate his unique mastery of recognizing and identifying the 'hands' of the cutters of Athenian inscriptions, ca. 300-229 b.c. No student of Greece in the Hellenistic age can effectively carry on research without taking account of Tracy's remarkable ...

"In this new work Stephen Tracy continues to demonstrate his unique mastery of recognizing and identifying the 'hands' of the cutters of Athenian inscriptions, ca. 300-229 b.c. No student of Greece in the Hellenistic age can effectively carry on research without taking account of Tracy's remarkable analysis of its most important primary source material."--Ronald S. Stroud, University of California, Berkeley

"No other scholar comes anywhere near to Tracy in the ability to apply his method, which requires long practice and great patience."--Gary Reger, author of "Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, 314-167 b.c."

This first systematic critique on the rhetoric of 21 presidents shows how political constraints shaped rhetoric and how oratory shaped politics. An introduction places American public address in the context of classical rhetorical practices and theory and sets the stage for the bio-critical essays ...

This first systematic critique on the rhetoric of 21 presidents shows how political constraints shaped rhetoric and how oratory shaped politics. An introduction places American public address in the context of classical rhetorical practices and theory and sets the stage for the bio-critical essays about presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton. Experts analyze the style and use of language, important speeches and their impact, and their ethical ramifications. Each essay on a president also keys major speeches to authoritative texts and offers a chronology and bibliography of primary and secondary sources. For students, teachers, and professionals in American public address, political communication, and the presidency.