Attic oratory

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ancient Greek cultural practice classical Athenian prose style genre of oratory rhetorical tradition

Attic oratory is the classical Athenian tradition of public speaking and rhetorical prose developed by prominent Greek orators in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Isocratean rhetoric	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek cultural practice ⓘ classical Athenian prose style ⓘ genre of oratory ⓘ rhetorical tradition ⓘ
characterizedBy	balanced sentence structure ⓘ clarity of style ⓘ ethical appeal ⓘ logical argumentation ⓘ use of examples and precedents ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
developedInPeriod	4th century BCE ⓘ 5th century BCE ⓘ
dialect	Attic Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ
documentedIn	deliberative speeches ⓘ epideictic speeches ⓘ forensic speeches ⓘ
field	classical philology ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ
hasCanonicalGroup	Ten Attic orators ⓘ
hasNotablePractitioner	Aeschines NERFINISHED ⓘ Andocides NERFINISHED ⓘ Antiphon NERFINISHED ⓘ Demosthenes NERFINISHED ⓘ Dinarchus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hyperides NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ Isocrates NERFINISHED ⓘ Lycurgus of Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ Lysias NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPrimaryFunction	persuasion in public affairs ⓘ
historicalContext	Athenian democracy NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ Quintilian NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman oratory ⓘ later European rhetoric ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
partOf	Attic prose ⓘ classical Greek rhetoric ⓘ
placeOfOrigin	Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Atticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophistic rhetoric ⓘ
sourceFor	Athenian legal history ⓘ Athenian political history ⓘ social history of classical Athens ⓘ
usedIn	Athenian law courts ⓘ Athenian political assemblies ⓘ diplomatic embassies in classical Greece ⓘ public funerals in Athens ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Olynthiacs → literaryTradition → Attic oratory ⓘ

Evagoras → literaryTradition → Attic oratory ⓘ

subject surface form: Evagoras (Isocrates)

Theopompus of Chios → influencedBy → Attic oratory ⓘ

this entity surface form: Isocratean rhetoric