Ideological speech and social experience: feminine status and mobility in [Demosthenes] 59, Against Neaira

• Grant number: 14/17789-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2015
• End date: January 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Norberto Luiz Guarinello
• Grantee: Aline Saes Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project intends a critical reading of greek rhetoric present in forensic speech 59, Against Neaira, inserted into the Corpus Demosthenicum but most likely written by the orator Apollodorus. From this, we intend to research about women and their plurality in Athens during the fourth century BC, exploring the masculine vision and ideals about women, implicit within the document in the athenian laws and in discourse itself, to explain the social experience of everyday life: different ethical positions and status envolving women, their social roles and their mobility as from athenian/non-athenian, legitimate/illegitimate dichotomies.