Boundaries and Limitations
The Features of Invective in Attic Forensic Public and Private Speeches
Abstract
This paper examines two forms of constraint that affect each other in the corpus of surviving speeches of Attic forensic oratory: the legal boundaries between speeches, i.e. those delivered in public and private cases, and what limitations these impose on an orator’s ability to use features and forms of invective.
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2025-07-16
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Serafim, A. (2025). Boundaries and Limitations: The Features of Invective in Attic Forensic Public and Private Speeches. Classica Et Mediaevalia, 101–141. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/158121
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