Lysias (Classic Reprint): Ten Selected Orations: Ten Selected Orations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Explore the art of ancient Greek oratory through Lysias’s ten selected speeches, edited for today’s readers. This volume presents Lysias’s ten orations in a carefully chosen order, with an introduction, notes, and appendices that illuminate his style and the era. It shows how rhetoric grew from early speech-writing to a refined literary art, and it offers guidance to students approaching Greek rhetoric for the first time. The edition also includes a map, a biographical index, idioms and phrases, and historical appendices that place the orations in their broader political and cultural context. - Ten selected orations presented in manuscript order, with scholarly notes - Introductions that outline Lysias’s life, style, and works - Appendices on topics like Greek oratory, legal procedure, and key historical events - Helpful apparatus for study, including idioms, a biographical index, and a chronology Ideal for readers new to Lysias, as well as students and teachers seeking a solid, scholarly introduction to classical rhetoric in context.

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