Meidias and the Mute Witness: Cicero’s debt to Demosthenes in the Verrines reconsidered

Kathryn Tempest

Meidias and the Mute Witness: Cicero’s debt to Demosthenes in the Verrines reconsidered

Kathryn Tempest

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Abstract

Cicero reworks Demosthenes’ presentation (21.83-100) of a silent victim unable to testify, in order to offer the Roman jurors, especially those familiar with Demosthenes’ speech, a visible and powerful testimony to Verres’ malfeasance.

© 2019, The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	215-241
Number of pages	27
Journal	GRBS (Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies)
Volume	59
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2019

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