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Genre/Form: | Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek Translations Translations into English |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lysias.; W R M Lamb |
ISBN: | 0674992695 9780674992696 0434992445 9780434992447 |
OCLC Number: | 7623486 |
Language Note: | Greek and English on opposite pages. |
Description: | xxvi, 706 pages ; 17 cm. |
Contents: | On the murder of Eratosthenes -- Funeral oration -- Against Simon -- On a wound by premeditation -- For Callias : on a charge of sacrilege -- Against Andocides : for impiety -- Before the Areopagus : the matter of the olive-stump -- Accusation of calumny against fellow members of a society -- For the soldier -- Against Theomnestus, I -- Against Theomnestus, II -- Against Eratosthenes -- Against Agoratus -- Against Alcibiades, I -- Against Albiciades, II -- Before the council : in defence of Mantitheus -- On the property of Eraton -- On the confiscation of the brother of Nicias -- On the property of Aristophanes -- For Polystratus -- Defence against a charge of taking bribes -- Against the corn dealers -- Against Pancleon -- On the refusal of a pension to the invalid -- Defence against a charge of subverting the democracy -- On the scrutiny of Evandros -- Against Epicrates and his fellow envoys -- Against Ergocles -- Against Philocrates -- Against Nichomachus -- Against Philon -- Against Diogeiton -- Olympic oration -- Against the subversion of the constitution of Athens. |
Series Title: | Loeb classical library, 244. |
Other Titles: | Speeches. |
Responsibility: | by W.R.M. Lamb. |
Abstract:
Lysias (c. 458 c. 380 BCE) took the side of democracy against the Thirty Tyrants in 404 BCE. Of a much larger number about thirty complete speeches by him survive. Fluent, simple, and graceful in style yet vivid in description, they suggest a passionate partisan who was also a gentle, humorous man.
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