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Lysiae Orationes Cum Fragmentis
Christopher Carey
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Description for Lysiae Orationes Cum Fragmentis
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198140726
SKU
V9780198140726
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About Christopher Carey
Christopher Carey is Professor of Greek, University College London.
Reviews for Lysiae Orationes Cum Fragmentis
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
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