Aeschines: Against Timarchos

by Aeschines

Book Overview

This is the first commentary in any language on Aeschines' Against Timarchos, the prosecution speech in the politically crucial trial of 346/5BC. The case was that Timarchos was forbidden to hold public office and disenfranchised because he had engaged in improper homosexual relationships in the past and had wasted his inheritance on debauchery. The speech is our most important source for Athenian legal sanctions and moral attitudes concerning same-sex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198149026
• ISBN13: 9780198149026
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.3"