LYSIAS With an English Translation
by Lysias; W. R. M. Lamb (Trans.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0674992695
- ISBN 13
- 9780674992696
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About This Item
Harvard University Press & William Heinemann. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0674992695 . Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has tears and chipping and a bit tatty. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 244; 736 pages; 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. .
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- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 37026
- Title
- LYSIAS With an English Translation
- Author
- Lysias; W. R. M. Lamb (Trans.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0674992695
- ISBN 13
- 9780674992696
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press & William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0674992695, Greek Literature, Legal And Law, Loeb Classical Library, Lysias
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- Law and Legal History;
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