Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum: Volume 39

by K.J. Dover

Book Overview

Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written versions of the speeches that he composed for them. In the early Hellenistic period, a corpus of more than four hundred speeches was ascribed to him; however, literary critics in the first century C.E. formed the opinion that scarcely more than half that number were correctly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520414764
• ISBN13: 9780520414761
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"