One of the canonical Athenian orators, Lysias was much admired in antiquity. This new critical edition seeks to make the whole surviving corpus of Lysias available to the modern reader. It combines a newly edited text of the speeches preserved in the medieval manuscript tradition (based on the most up-to-date evaluation of the transmission) with a comprehensive collection of the fragments preserved indirectly through citation in ancient sources and in papyrus discoveries in the twentieth century. A general introduction in English provides an overview of the transmission of the text in antiquity and the Renaissance. An appendix contains a number of speeches almost certainly not written by Lysias but occasionally attributed to him in modern times.

Lysiae Orationes cum Fragmentis (Oxford Classical Texts)

Literature & Fiction

Lysias

Classics

Oxford University Press

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Orationes (Oxford Classical Texts)

History & Criticism

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Epitaphios

Ayer Co. Pub

Works (Loeb Classical Library)

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Lysias: Selected Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century B.C. Six of his professional legal speeches are included in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and for the accessibility of their language. In his introduction, Dr. Carey discusses Lysias' life and place in the evolution of Greek prose style and in the development of Greek rhetoric. He approaches the speeches as attempts to secure a verdict favorable to the speaker and assesses how effectively the selection and deployment of arguments promote this end. He addresses textual issues and problems of Lysias' style and syntax, while focusing particularly on literary concerns: Lysias' use of rhetorical devices, his marshalling of fact and argument and his manipulation of contemporary values and prejudices.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Cambridge University Press

Dramas & Plays

Lysias (ca. 458–ca. 380 BCE), born at Athens, son of a wealthy Syracusan settled in Attica, lived in Peiraeus, where with his brother he inherited his father's shield factory. Being a loyal supporter of democracy, Lysias took the side of the democrats at Athens against the Thirty Tyrants in 404, supplying shields and money. After one political speech in accusation of Eratosthenes (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 Dionysius.
The surviving speeches of Lysias (about thirty complete out of a very much larger number) are fluent, simple and graceful in style yet vivid in description. They suggest a passionate partisan who was also a gentle humorous man. We see in him the art of oratory young and fresh.

Lysias (Loeb Classical Library) (Greek and English Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

g.p.putnam

Lysias;: Selected speeches XII, XVI, XIX, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXXII, XXXIV (Greek Edition)

University of Oklahoma Press

Lysias: Five Speeches: 10, 12, 14, 19 & 22 (BCP Greek Texts)

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company

LYSIAS ORATIONS I, III-9780929524191-N

Orations 1 and 3 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Greek) (Ancient Greek and English Edition)

Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Inc.

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