title: Lysias’s Speech On the Refusal of a Pension and Athenian Citizens with Disabilities
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metadata.value: Kudryavtseva, Tatyana V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T09:50:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T09:50:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kudryavtseva T. V. Lysias’s Speech On the Refusal of a Pension and Athenian Citizens with Disabilities. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 1, рp. 102–112.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36490
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines speech XXIV by Athenian orator Lysias “On the Refusal of a Pension”
  (V–IV c. BCE) This text provides not only an excellent example of a legal speech written by a
  renowned Attic orator but also invaluable material for the study of social policy of Athenian
  democracy, namely — adaptation and survival of people with disabilities in the ancient Greek
  polis. The author of the article agrees with those researchers who have no doubts concerning
  the authorship of the speech and its intention to be delivered during the litigation on dokimasia
  of “infirm” people in the Council 500. The article considers the information about the disabled
  people in Athens and the allowance granted to them, and analyses topoi frequently used by litigants
  in legal speeches. Similarly to other Athenian trials, the outcome of this is not known, nor
  is the fate of the disabled person and whether he managed to assert his position. The analysis
  of the strategies of litigants indicates that appealing to pathos, enhancing the image of a good
  citizen, and discrediting the opponent in combination with irony, humor, and dramatization of
  the trial, to a certain extent, often made an impact on judges and resulted in a favorable decision
  The whole repertoire of these tactics was effectively utilized by the orator in speech XXIV,
  therefore is reasonable to suggest that the success was almost guaranteed. It is also noteworthy
  that the Athenian law that granted the allowance to adynatoi was unique for the Ancient
  Greece and, in all probability, was connected with the development of Athenian democracy.
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metadata.value: The paper was created within the project financed by Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  No. 19-09-00183 (Judicial process in antiquity: legal, political, social and personal aspects).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greece
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Athenian democracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: trial
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lysias
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: disabled people
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: allowance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Lysias’s Speech On the Refusal of a Pension and Athenian Citizens with Disabilities
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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