古代ギリシアの歴史や法律、文学作品における証拠や証言の利用法、態度を多角的視点から分析したものです。「エヴィデンス」とされるものが如何にレトリカルに扱われているのかについて詳細な分析を加えることで、論証、証明というもののが持つ文化的・社会的意味をあらためて考え直すことにつながります。

人文学研究科 准教授　佐藤昇

目次

• Introduction: Witness and Evidence in Legal, Oratorical and Other Literary Contexts in Antiquity
• PART I: WRITTEN AND ORAL EVIDENCE
  • The Role of Written Documents in Athenian Trials
  • Rumour and Hearsay Evidence in the Athenian Law-courts
• PART II: THE RHETORIC OF INFORMATION-GATHERING AND DECISION- MAKING
  • Audience Memory as Evidence in the Trial on the Crown
  • Additional Information in Witness Testimonies in Classical Athens
  • Self-Quotations as Witnesses and Evidence: The Case of Isocrates’ Antidosis
  • Antiphon’s Witnesses: Extending the Earliest Greek Theories of Argumentation
• PART III: SCRIPTING WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE: PROSE AND VERSE TEXTS
  • The Questions in (Answering the Question about the Historicity of) Plato’s Apology of Socrates
  • Plato’s Apology of Socrates: The Rhetoric of Socrates’ Defence and the Foundation of the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry
  • Witnesses and Evidence in Thucydides: The Institutional and Rhetorical Context of the Digression on the Tyrannicides
  • The Torture of Prometheus
  • Poet, Patron, Message: Witness-Roles and the Game of Truth in Epinician Eidography
• PART IV: THE CULTURAL WORKINGS OF WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
  • Information and Decision in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Euripides’ Medea and Ino
  • Scandals as Evidence in Attic Forensic Oratory: The Case of Aeschines’ Against Timarchus