After Chaeronea: Law, Trauma, and Affective Community in Democratic Athens

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Brief Overview

This paper explores the way Demosthenes’ Crown speech offers a new type of trial narrative through which the Athenians could make sense of the defeat and their new place in the world.

Author

• Susan Lape, University of Southern California