Various general works on Greek rhetoric include discussions of forensic oratory. J. F. Dobson, The Greek Orators (London: 1918), has comments on the life of each of the orators in the so-called ‘Canon of the Ten Attic Orators’, a discussion of their oratorical styles and short summaries of their speeches. So also do G. A. Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (Princeton: 1963), pp. 125-152 and 206-263, his abridged version A New History of Classical Rhetoric (Princeton: 1994), pp. 64-80 and M. Edwards, The Attic Orators (London: 1994). For those approaching forensic rhetoric for the first time, Edwards’ book is a good starting point, for he also catalogues all of the extant speeches, along with their classification (deliberative, epideictic, forensic), and their approximate date of delivery (Appendix 2). The most recent and most comprehensive treatment is S. Usher, Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality (Oxford: 1999). There are several commentaries on individual orators in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. These are primarily intended for Greek readers, but each commentary offers an accessible introduction that provides essential background information. Here I would include C. Carey, Lysias: Selected Speeches (Cambridge: 1989), C. Carey and R. A. Reid, Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches (Cambridge: 1985) and M. Gagarin, Antiphon: the Speeches (Cambridge: 1997). For translations of speeches, there is a collection in C. Carey, Trials from Classical Athens (London: 1997) and in the University of Texas Oratory of Classical Greece series (see this book’s Preface). There are numerous articles that deal with rhetorical means of persuasion in forensic oratory; of especial significance are C. Carey’s ‘ ‘‘Artless’’ Proofs in Aristotle and the Orators’, BICS 39 (1994), pp. 95-106, ‘Rhetorical Means of Persuasion’, in Ian Worthington (ed.), Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action (London: 1994), pp. 26-45 and ‘Nomos in Attic Rhetoric and Oratory’, JHS 116 (1996), pp. 33-46, and E. M. Harris, ‘Law and Oratory’, in Ian Worthington, Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action (cited above), pp. 130-150.
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