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Provides the first intensive study of the reception of Classical Athenian politics across the Hellenistic world, bridging the gap between scholarly study of these two periods~Offers a new perspective on Classical Athens itself, as well as the first stages in its long reception history~Brings together literary, philosophical, and epigraphic evidence and approaches, revealing new connections between texts and evidence often studied separately~En...

In this volume Canevaro studies the 'state' documents preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. Offering a comprehensive account of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, Canevaro summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.

The book provides a comprehensive study of Demosthenes' Against Leptines as a document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law and public economy. The importance of the speech has been increasingly recognized in recent years, with research on Athenian lawmaking highlighting its centrality and the inadequacy of previous accounts, and work on honours for benefactors and on the liturgical system stressing its importance fo...