Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory

Contents
Acknowledgements
Killing with a Smile: Comic Invective in Greek and Roman Oratory • Sophia Papaioannou and Andreas Serafim
Part I: Intertextual and Multi-genre Invective
	Comedy and Insults in the Athenian Law-courts • Jasper Donelan
	Comic Invective and Public Speech in Fourth-Century Athens • Kostas Apostolakis
	Comic Invective in Attic Forensic Oratory: Private Speeches • Andreas Serafim
	Rhetorical Defence, Inter-poetic Agōn and the Reframing of Comic Invective in Plato’s Apology of Socrates • Emiliano J. Buis
	“You are Mad!” Allegations of Insanity in Greek Comedy and Rhetoric • George Kazantzidis
	Comic Invective in Cicero’s Speech Pro M. Caelio • Dennis Pausch
	How to Start a Show: Comic Invectives in the Prologues of Terence and Decimus Laberius • Hanna Maria Degener
Part II: The Cultural Workings of Invective
	Comic Somatisation and the Body of Evidence in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus • Thomas K. Hubbard
	Comic Invective, Decorum and Ars in Cicero’s De Oratore • Nathan Kish
	No Decorum in the Forum? Comic Invective in the Theatre of Justice • Jan Lukas Horneff
Part III: Invective in Ancient Socio-political Contexts
	Political Rhetoric and Comic Invective in Fifth-Century Athens: The Trial of the Dogs in Aristophanes’ Wasps • Ioannis Konstantakos
	Democracy, Poverty, Comic Heroism and Oratorical Strategy in Lysias 24 • Wilfred E. Major
Notes on Editors and Contributors
General Index
Index Locorum