Research Catalog

Title

Lysias / with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb.

Author

Lysias.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1930.

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Additional Authors

Lamb, W. R. M. (Walter Rangeley Maitland), 1882-

Description

xxvi, 706 pages; 17 cm

Summary

LYSIAS (c.458- C.380 B.C.), born at Athens, son of wealthy Cephalus of Syracuse settled in Attica, is said to have gone after his father's death to Greek Thurii when it was founded in Italy in 444, and to have begun his studies in the new art of Rhetoric there. After the Athenian disaster in Sicily in 413, Lysias and his brother Polemarchus and others were expelled from Thurii in 413 and became 'metrics' (resident aliens) of a privileged kind in Attica, Polemarchus in Athens, Lysias in Peiraeus where they inherited their father's shileld-factory. Both being loyal supporters of democracy, Polemarchus fell victim to the 'Thirty Tyrants' in 404 but Lysias escaped and helped the democrats at Athens with shields and money. After one political speech in accusation of Ertosthenes (one of the Thirty) in 405, he became at Athens a busy professional speech-writer for the law-courts. At the Olympic festival of 388 he denounced, with riotous results, the costly display of the embassy sent by Dionysius I of Syracuse and the domination of Sicily by Dionysus. The surviving speeches (about thirty complete out of a very much larger number) -- fluent, simple and graceful in style yet vivid in description, and in expression of character, suggest that Lysias, though an over-passionate partisan was a gentle humorous man loyal to the Athenian democracy. We see him in the art of oratory young and fresh.

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; 244

Uniform Title

• Speeches. English & Greek
• Loeb classical library ; 244.

Alternative Title

Speeches.

Subjects

• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek > Translations into English
• Lysias > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek – Translations into English.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page viii) and index.

Language (note)

• Greek and English on opposite pages.

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.

Call Number

PA3611

ISBN

• 9780674992696
• 0674992695

OCLC

7623486

Author

Lysias.

Title

Lysias / with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1930.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical library ; 244

Loeb classical library ; 244.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page viii) and index.

Language

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Added Author

Lamb, W. R. M. (Walter Rangeley Maitland), 1882- Translator

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3611 .L97