Lysias

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780292781665
• ISBN-10: 0292781660
• Artikelnr.: 22379436

Autorenporträt

By S. C. Todd

Inhaltsangabe

1. Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin)
2. Translator's Preface (S. C. Todd)
3. Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin)
* Oratory in Classical Athens
* The Orators
* The Works of the Orators
* Government and Law in Classical Athens
* The Translation of Greek Oratory
* Abbreviations
* Note on Currency
* Bibliography of Works Cited
* Supplementary Bibliography for Volume 2
* Modern Editions of Lysias
4. Lysias (S. C. Todd)
5. Introduction
* Chronology
* Career
* Style
* Survival and Authenticity
* Fragments
* Further Reading
6. 1. On the Death of Eratosthenes
7. 2. Funeral Speech
8. 3. Against Simon
9. 4. On a Premeditated Wounding
10. 5. For Callias
11. 6. Against Andocides
12. 7. Concerning the Sekos
13. 8. Against the Members of a Sunousia
14. 9. For the Soldier
15. 10-11. Against Theomnestus for Defamation
16. 12. Against Eratosthenes
17. 13. Against Agoratus
18. 14-15. Against Alcibiades
19. 16. For Mantitheus
20. 17. On the Property of Eraton
21. 18. On the Property of Nicias' Brother
22. 19. On the Property of Aristophanes
23. 20. For Polystratus
24. 21. On a Charge of Accepting Bribes
25. 22. Against the Retailers of Grain
26. 23. Against Pancleon
27. 24. For the Disabled Man
28. 25. On a Charge of Overthrowing the Democracy
29. 26. Against Euandrus
30. 27. Against Epicrates
31. 28-29. Against Ergocles and Against Philocrates
32. 30. Against Nicomachus
33. 31. Against Philon
34. 32. Against Diogeiton
35. 33. Olympic Speech
36. 34. Preserving the Ancestral Constitution
37. Fragment 1. Against Aeschines the Socratic
38. Fragment 2. Against Teisis
39. Fragment 3. For Pherenicus
40. Fragment 4. Against Cinesias
41. Fragment 5. Against Archebiades
42. Fragment 6. Against the Sons of Hippocrates
43. Fragment 7. Against Hippotherses
44. Fragment 8. Against Theomnestus
45. Fragment 9. For Eryximachus
46. Fragment 10. Against Theozotides
47. Fragment 11. Concerning Antiphon's Daughter
48. Index