Съдържание:
  • A culture of rhetoric
  • Rhetoric and history (415 BC)
  • How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades
  • Rhetoric and history II: Platnea (431-27 BC)
  • Explaining the war
  • Thucydides' speeches
  • 'You cannot be serious': approaching Aristophanes
  • Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC)
  • Tragedy and ideology
  • Lysistrata and others: constructing gender
  • Conclusions: texts, audiences, truth.