Ten Selected Orations

Lysias

American book Company, 1898 - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - 240 pages

Contents

• ORATION: 25
• 92: 64
• Legal Procedure Courts: 225

Popular passages

Page 23 - The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks; translated from the German by Alice Zimmern.‎

Page 168 - I think it is clear, from a careful review of our authorities, that Theramenes was an honest man. But he was a philosopher and a doctrinaire, and had a Socratic ideal of a perfect state which, both in the time of the Four Hundred and in that of the Thirty, he thought he saw his way to realise, but was quickly undeceived by the development of selfish aims in his colleagues. As, therefore, he 'sympathised neither with the prejudices of the Democrats, nor the self-seeking of the Oligarchs, he came to...‎

Page 24 - Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Harper : Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities.‎

Page 14 - The date of his death, like that of his birth, is not definitely known.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ten Selected Orations
• Author: Lysias
• Editor: William Henry Wait
• Publisher: American book Company, 1898
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 12, 2007
• Length: 240 pages