This is the first in a two-volume edition of Greek orators.
Antiphon of Athens, born in 480 BCE, spent his prime in the great period of Athens but, disliking democracy, was himself an ardent oligarch who with others set up a violent short-lived oligarchy in 411. The restored democracy executed him for treason. He had been a writer of speeches for other people involved in litigation. Of the fifteen surviving works three concern real murder cases. The others are exercises in speech-craft consisting of three tetralogies, each tetralogy comprising four skeleton speeches: accuser's; ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1941
ISBN-13:9780674993402ISBN:0674993403
Description: New. Text in English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 608 p. Loeb Classical Library, 308. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 1941
ISBN-13:9780674993402ISBN:0674993403
Description: New. This is the first in a two-volume edition of Greek orators. Antiphon of Athens, born in 480 BC, spent his prime in the great period of Athens but, disliking democracy, was himself an ardent oligarch who with others set up a violent short-lived oliga... read more
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