Doctors in Attic Forensic Oratory

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  • Christine Plastow The Open University

Abstract

Figurative and real doctors are deployed in rhetoric in a positive or negative light depending on their alignment with the litigants, and this can be used to contextualise the appearance of doctors as witnesses in court.

Author Biography

Christine Plastow, The Open University

Lecturer in Classical Studies School of Arts and Cultures

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Published

2019-11-22

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