Lysias / translated by S.C. Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lysias.

Contributor:

Todd, S. C. (Stephen Charles), 1958-

Series:

Oratory of classical Greece ; v. 2.

The oratory of classical Greece ; v. 2

Standardized Title:

Speeches. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lysias--Translations into English.

Lysias.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek--Translations into English.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government--Sources.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

xxx, 402 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the second volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains all the complete works and eleven of the largest fragments attributed to Lysias, the leading speechwriter of the generation (403-380 B.C.) after the Peloponnesian War, who was also one of the finest and most deceptive storytellers of all time. As a noncitizen resident in Athens, Lysias could take no direct part in politics, but his speeches, written for clients to deliver in court, paint vivid pictures of various private and public disputes: one speaker defends himself on a charge of murdering his wife's lover, while another is accused of having caused the deaths of democratic activists under the short-lived oligarchy of the Thirty (404/3), despite his claim to be protected by the amnesty that accompanied the restoration of democracy in 403.

Contents:

On the death of Eratosthenes

Funeral speech

Against Simon

On a premeditated wounding

For Callias

Against Andocides

Concerning the Sekos

Against the members of a Sunousia

For the soldier

Against Theomnestus for defamation

Against Eratosthenes

Against Agoratus

Against Alcibiades

For Mantitheus

On the property of Eraton

On the property of Nicias' brother

On the property of Aristophanes

For Polystratus

On a charge of accepting bribes

Against the retailers of grain

Against Pancleon

For the disabled man

On a charge of overthrowing the democracy

Against Euandrus

Against Epicrates

Against Ergocles and against Philocrates

Against Nicomachus

Against Philon

Against Diogeiton

Olympic speech

Preserving the ancestral constitution

Fragment 1. Against Aeschines the socratic

Fragment 2. Against Teisis

Fragment 3. For Pherenicus

Fragment 4. Against Cinesias

Fragment 5. Against Archebiades

Fragment 6. Against the sons of Hippocrates

Fragment 7. Against Hippocrates

Fragment 8. Against Theomnestus

Fragment 9. For Eryximachus

Fragment 10. Against Theozotides

Fragment 11. Concerning Antiphon's daughter.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxviii-xxx) index.

ISBN:

0-292-79919-5

OCLC:

49995260