Lysias: Five Speeches: 1, 12, 19, 22, 30

Informationen zum Autor Michael Edwards is Professor at the University of London and author of "Attic Orators" (1998). Michael J. Edwards is Professor of Classics at Queen Mary College, University of London and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. He is co-author of Greek Orators 1: Antiphon and Lysias; translator of the speeches of Isaeus; and author of a companion to Plutarch’s Lives of Pompey, Caesar and Cicero (also published by Bloomsbury). Michael J. Edwards is Professor of Classics at Queen Mary College, University of London and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. He is co-author of Greek Orators 1: Antiphon and Lysias; translator of the speeches of Isaeus; and author of a companion to Plutarch’s Lives of Pompey, Caesar and Cicero (also published by Bloomsbury). Klappentext Five examples of the art of speech-writing in ancient Athens Vorwort These five examples of Lysias' speech-writing cover a range of cases and offer an insight into late 5th and early 4th century Athenian society. Zusammenfassung In the BRISTOL CLASSICAL PRESS GREEK TEXTS series. Lysias was one of the leading exponents of the art of speech-writing in late fifth and early fourth century Athens. These five examples of his work cover a range of cases and offer an insight into Athenian society. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceGeneral Introduction:Text:Life of LysiasWorksStyleArrangement and MethodLysias as an Historical SourceThe Thirty TyrantsThe Text1 On the Killing of Eratosthenes12 Against Eratosthenes19 On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury22 Against the Com-Dealers30 Against NicomachusCommentary:BibliographyGlossary of Rhetorical TermsIndex

Product details

• Authors: M. Edwards, Michael Edwards, Lysias
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.1999
• EAN: 9781853994470
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-447-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Greek Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Literary essays, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval