@inbook{265c741b18e94651a1bde72c677ffe55,
title = "Dinarchus, the 'recent' and the 'very recent' past: lessons from Aeschines, Demosthenes and Lycurgus?",
abstract = "In this essay, I discuss how the orators handled the {\textquoteleft}distant past{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}recent past{\textquoteright} by considering aspects of Dinarchus 1, and more briefly, Lycurgus 1 and Aeschines 3. In doing so, I suggest there was another {\textquoteleft}past{\textquoteright} that shaped the orators{\textquoteright} narrative, which I call the {\textquoteleft}very recent past{\textquoteright}, referring to things that were still fresh in an audience's mind. Dinarchus{\textquoteright} speech shows that he treated this {\textquoteleft}very recent past{\textquoteright} less cavalierly than the {\textquoteleft}recent past{\textquoteright} of even a decade previously when his audience{\textquoteright}s memory might have started to dim.",
author = "Ian Worthington",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1515/9783110791877-026",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783110791815",
series = "Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes",
publisher = "De Gruyter",
pages = "431--445",
editor = "Aggelos Kapellos",
booktitle = "The orators and their treatment of the recent past",
}