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Lysiae Orationes cum Fragmentis

Christopher Carey editor

Format:Fold-out book or chart

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:27th Sep '07

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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.

a lucid account... The collecion of fragments is the fullest ever * Malcolm Heath, Greece and Rome *
the reviewer is... left only to commend without reserve the chalkenteric industry and scholarship of the editor. * Stephen Usher, JHS *
...it ought to remain a standard text for many years... * Douglas M. Macdowell, The Classical Review *

ISBN: 9780198140726

Dimensions: 193mm x 130mm x 39mm

Weight: 670g

616 pages

2nd Revised edition