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Greek Orators and Oratory:
Selected Sources

Primary Sources (Texts and Translations)
Aeschines. Aeschines. Trans. Christopher Carey. Oratory of Classical Greece 3. Austin: U of Texas P, 2000.
Andocides. Antiphon and Andocides. Trans. Michael Gagarin and Douglas M. MacDowell. Oratory of Classical Greece 1. Austin: U of Texas P, 1998.
Antiphon. Antiphon and Andocides. Trans. Michael Gagarin and Douglas M. MacDowell. Oratory of Classical Greece 1. Austin: U of Texas P, 1998.
Demosthenes. see separate bibliography on Demosthenes.
Dinarchus. Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus. Trans. Ian Worthington, Craig R. Cooper, and Edward M. Harris. Oratory of Classical Greece 5. Austin: U of Texas P, 2001.
Hyperides. Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus. Trans. Ian Worthington, Craig R. Cooper, and Edward M. Harris. Oratory of Classical Greece 5. Austin: U of Texas P, 2001.
Isocrates. See separate bibliography on Isocrates.
Lycurgus. Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus. Trans. Ian Worthington, Craig R. Cooper, and Edward M. Harris. Oratory of Classical Greece 5. Austin: U of Texas P, 2001.
Lysias. Lysias. Trans. Stephen Charles Todd. Oratory of Classical Greece 2. Austin: U of Texas P, 2000.
Critical Literature
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Billault, Alain. "The Rhetoric of a 'Divine Man': Apollonius of Tyana as Critic of Oratory and as Orator According to Philostratus." Philosophy and Rhetoric 26 (1993): 227-235.
Burke, E. M. "Contra Leocratem and De corona: Political collaboratio?" Phoenix 31 (1977): 330-340.
Carey, Christopher. "Structure and Strategy in Lysias XXIV." Greece & Rome 37 (1990): 44-51.
Cargill, J. "Demosthenes, Aeschines, and the Crop of Traitors." Ancient World 11 (1985): 75-85.
Cawkwell, G. L. "Euboea in the Late 340's." Phoenix 32 (1978): 42-67.
Diller, A. "The Manuscript Tradition of Aeschines' Orations." Illinois Classical Studies 4 (1979): 34-64.
Dorjahn, A. P, and W. D. Fairchild. "Antiphon and Improvisation." Classical Bulletin 50 (1973-1974): 29-31.
Dyck, A. R. "The Function and Persuasive Power of Demosthenes' Portrait of Aeschines in the Speech On the Crown." Greece and Rome 32 (1985): 42-48.
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Gagarin, Michael. The Murder of Herodes: A Study of Antiphon 5.
Gaines, Robert N. "Identification and Redemption in Lysias' Against Eratosthenes." Central States Speech Journal 30 (1979): 199-210.
Hansen, Mogens Herman. The Athenian Assembly in the Age of Demosthenes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
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Jebb, R. C. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. 2 vols. New York: Russell and Russell, 1962.
Johnstone, Christopher Lyle. "Greek Oratorical Settings and the Problem of the Pnyx: Rethinking the Athenian Political Process." Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. Albany : State U of New York P, 1996. 97-127.
Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin. The Athens of Demosthenes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1952.
Kindstrand, J. F. The Stylistic Evaluation of Aeschines in Antiquity. Acta Univ. Upsal. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 18. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1982.
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Montgomery, H. The Way to Chaeronea: Foreign Policy, Decision Making and Political Influence in Demosthenes' Speeches. Oslo: Oslo Universitetsforlaget, 1983.
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Saunders, A. N. W., trans. Demosthenes and Aeschines. Baltimore: Penguin, 1975.
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---. Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model: The Rhetoric of Crisis. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1983.
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Worman, Nancy. "Odysseus Panourgos: The Liar's Style in Tragedy and Oratory." Helios 26 (1999): 35-69.