| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The previous project analysed the forensic orations in Classical Athens, focusing on how judicial, religious, social and cultural conditions influenced the Athenian culture of persuasion in the 4th century BC, and what rhetoric was established and contributed to audience persuasion. Based on the results of this study, this project conducted a comparative analysis of oratories and descriptions of meetings in various literary genres. The research has revealed that litigants deployed different rhetorical strategies from those of speakers in the Assembly and that literary works such as tragedies, comedies and historiographies, when describing the speeches and meetings in the courtrooms and assemblies, deployed similar rhetoric to the one in forensic and symbouleutic speeches of their contemporaries, to some extent, but that they also used different rhetorical strategies to persuade their respective readers and audiences, according to the author's intentions.
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