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Paperback / softback. New. 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 ascribed. In late Roman times, a small selection of speeches was made without regard for the opinions of critics on authenticity, and that selection has survived. Our knowledge of the remainder is fragmentary and indirect. K. J. Dover examines the extent to which, and the means by which, the work of the individual Lysias can be distinguished within the total corpus ascribed to him. One part of the examination is an attempt to reconstruct the entire process of transmission, from the making of the late Roman selection through…
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Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum: Volume 39 Paperback - 2018
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- Title Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum: Volume 39
- Author K. J. Dover
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- Pages 210
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- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2018-05-18
- ISBN 9780520302143 / 0520302141
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.48 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.22 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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