Westwood Guy - The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens

The doctoral thesis on which this book is based was written in 200913 under the supervision first of Gunther Martin and then of Chris Pelling. Gunther accepted me as a supervisee, and when he moved to a new post in 2010 (after which he kindly continued to read material), Chris took over and has remained a constant source of hugely valuable advice and general wisdom. I am very grateful to both of them for the criticisms, guidance, and encouragement they offered and continue to offer. The resulting thesis was examined by Chris Carey and Simon Hornblower in 2014, and I would like to extend my warm thanks to them and to Mike Edwards, and also to my advisers for the Press, Lisa Kallet and Alfonso Moreno, for their very helpful comments on the thesis version and on the resulting book version. Other readers of this material have included the Faculty-appointed assessors who read parts of the developing thesis for the official progression stages of the DPhil degree, Luke Pitcher and Tim Rood, and also Tobias Reinhardt (as overall supervisor of the MSt degree whose dissertation element, revised twice over, now appears as ). I am very glad to be able to thank them all here.

My thanks also go to Mirko Canevaro, Andrew Lintott, William Mack, Peter Rhodes, Richard Rutherford, Pietro Vannicelli, and the late George Cawkwell, who have all either willingly discussed aspects of Greek history and culture with me or read and commented on articles spinning off from the thesis and book, or both. Some of them have also kindly shared unpublished or forthcoming material (as have Jon Hesk, Hugo Koning, and Kathryn Tempest). Audiences in Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, London, and Oxford have heard papers on the themes and/or subject matter of the thesis and book, and I record here my thanks to those who asked questions or offered comments on those occasions.

The thesis versionwritten at Merton College, Oxford, with the support of a Domus Scholarshipwas completed during a Stipendiary Lectureship at Magdalen College, and the work of conversion to a monograph was carried out during my tenure, first, of the Leventis Research Fellowship in Ancient Greek at Merton College (201317) (for election to which post, my thanks to the A. G. Leventis Foundation and to the college), then of a years Teaching Fellowship at the University of Birmingham, and, most recently, of a years Departmental Lectureship in the Classics Faculty and at St Hughs College, Oxford. In all these places I have been fortunate to work alongside supportive and good-humoured Classics colleagues, and I would like to record special thanks here to Andrew Bayliss, Felix Budelmann, Philip Burton, John Eidinow, Maeve McHugh, Hannah Mitchell, Gideon Nisbet, Jonathan Prag, Alberto Rigolio, Tim Rood (again), and Gareth Searsand above all to Rhiannon Ash, as generous and humane a senior colleague as I could have wished for during my time as a Merton tutor. Henriette van der Blom, Armand DAngour, John Davie, Peta Fowler, Adrian Kelly, and Rosalind Thomas have all provided (and continue to provide) guidance of different kinds, some of them from my earliest days as a student. Rosalind also read two chapters of the thesis version, while Adrian lent me a working laptop when my own failed abruptly at a key point in the summer of 2012. I am most grateful to them all.

Many other colleagues beyond Classics have sustained me with their company and insights along the way, and the regular denizens of the Merton SCR deserve particular collective recognition here. I have also been extremely fortunate in my students at Magdalen, at Merton, in Birmingham, at St Hughs, and also at Jesus (where I began my teaching) and other collegesthey have kept me on my toes and often sparked new lines of inquiry. Finally, it is a pleasure to be able to make special mention of some friends whose company has added immensely to the experience of working on the thesis, or writing the book, or teaching, or all of them: Linda Briggs, Aneurin Ellis-Evans, Katie Low, Tom Phillips (for several years now an unfailingly stimulating discussion partner on many topics), and Antony Smith. Little of what follows would have been possible, though, without the love and ongoing support of my parents, and I dedicate this book to them as a sign of my deep gratitude.