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Volume 52, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0870-0133
  • E-ISSN: 2736-3082

Abstract

Abstract

This paper aims to study the overlapping of irreligious vocabulary, rhetoric, and a rumour widely used against Demosthenes – his alleged cooperation in the murder of Nicodemus. Our analysis focuses on how rumours were suitable for humiliating the opponent and how their combination with irreligious notions turned them into a powerful device for invective. Bearing this in mind, we consider four different variants of this argument, provided by Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Dinarchus.

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