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Selections from the Attic Orators
R.c Jebb (Ed.)
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Description for Selections from the Attic Orators
Paperback. A companion to the two-volume monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1876), this title presents a selection that was meticulously made to illustrate the 'successive steps in the process by which a language of most elastic resource was gradually adapted to a certain set of purposes'. Editor(s): Jebb, R. C. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
This edition was designed by R.C. Jebb – one of the greatest classical scholars Britain has ever produced – as a companion to his two-volume monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1876). The selection was meticulously made to illustrate the ‘successive steps in the process by which a language of most elastic resource was gradually adapted to a certain set of purposes’. The authors represented, with their varied styles, serve to bridge the gap that lies between the prose of Gorgias and Thucydides and that of Demosthenes. At the same time the passages are specifically selected for their intrinsic ... Read more
This edition was designed by R.C. Jebb – one of the greatest classical scholars Britain has ever produced – as a companion to his two-volume monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1876). The selection was meticulously made to illustrate the ‘successive steps in the process by which a language of most elastic resource was gradually adapted to a certain set of purposes’. The authors represented, with their varied styles, serve to bridge the gap that lies between the prose of Gorgias and Thucydides and that of Demosthenes. At the same time the passages are specifically selected for their intrinsic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904675075
SKU
V9781904675075
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About R.c Jebb (Ed.)
R.C. Jebb was Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. P.E. Easterling is Professor Emeritus of Greek in the University of Cambridge. Recent work includes The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (ed.) (1997) and Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession (ed. with Edith Hall) (2002). She has also provided the introductions to each of Jebb’s ... Read more
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