The Subversive Oratory of Andokides: Politics, Ideology and Decision-Making in Democratic Athens Book

	Preface
1	Introduction
1.1	Athenian deliberative oratory	1
1.2	The limitations of the traditional, speaker-oriented approach	2
1.2.1	The assumptions of the speaker-oriented approach	5
1.3	A contextual and historical approach	8
1.4	Andokides' deliberative oratory: a case study	10
2	Civic virtue in the eyes of an oligarch
2.1	Andokides' family	15
2.2	The orator's socio-economic milieu	20
2.3	Andokides' On his Return	25
2.3.1	An insolent tone	26
2.3.2	The services of Andokides	28
2.3.3	The changing significance of charis	32
2.3.4	Andokides on civic virtue	40
2.4	Andokides' On the Mysteries	49
3	The anti-imperialistic argument
3.1	Historical setting of the Athenian Assembly in 391	55
3.2	Use and abuse of democracy	56
3.3	The controversy over Athenian prosperity	58
3.4	Athenian public opinion on the empire	67
3.5	The Athenian empire and Andokides' rhetorical strategies	73
3.5.1	The symbolic significance of walls and ships	74
3.5.2	The food question	76
3.5.3	Andokides on Themistokles	78
3.6	The attitudes of the social classes towards war	82
3.7	Summary	85
4	Sparta's moral superiority
4.1	Andokides' portrait of an ungrateful Athens	87
4.2	The transmission of the historical allusion: Xenophon	92
4.3	Other evidence on the incident of 405/4	95
4.4	An ideological interpretation	100
5	Andokides, Athenian foreign policy and the principle of gratitude
5.1	Andokides' criticism of Athenian foreign policy	109
5.2	The singularity of the Athenian code in Greek interstate relations	111
5.2.1	Perikles' ideological assertion	114
5.3	The Kerkyraian debate	121
5.4	The Mytilenaian debate	126
5.5	The Plataian debate	130
6	Rational argument and emotional appeal in the deliberation of 391
6.1	Introduction	140
6.2	The strategy of fear	144
6.3	Informed speculation	149
6.4	Changes in the image of the enemy	154
6.5	The Argive question	158
7	The rhetoric of subversion
7.1	The decision of the Assembly in 391	168
7.2	The subversive character of Andokides' speech	172
7.3	The subversive strategies of Andokides and Antiphon	177
7.4	Conclusion	181
	Bibliography	183
	General index	198
	Index of passages cited