Attic orators skillfully deployed reference to ancestral cults, sacred laws, traditional rites and other types of religious actions to construct religious identity as a means of persuasion. The present chapter explores the use of a variety of forms of religious argumentation and addresses issues of religious identity in public cases of eisangelia. Emphasis is placed on the question of how orators reconstruct ideal forms of religious identity in their arguments; particularly, the main interest of this chapter lies in the techniques by which orators use their religious argumentation to construct pictures of religious identity, both collective and individual, as well as their own identity.

阁楼演说家巧妙地参考了祖先的邪教，神圣的法律，传统的仪式和其他类型的宗教活动，以建立宗教身份作为说服手段。本章探讨了各种形式的宗教论证的运用，并讨论了埃及公共场合的宗教认同问题。重点放在演说家如何在其论证中重建理想的宗教身份形式的问题上。特别是，本章的主要兴趣在于演说者使用其宗教论证来建构集体和个人以及其自身身份的宗教身份的图片的技术。