Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus

by R.C Jebb (Editor), P. E. Easterling (Introduction)

Overview

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 social and historical interest to readers. That the edition was still in regular use almost a hundred years later, says much for its quality. This reissue carries a substantial new introduction in which Pat Easterling assesses Jebb's scholarship in general and the place of the Attic orators within it, while Michael Edwards writes more specifically about the edition's strengths and influences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904675075
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/06/2005
Series:	Bristol Phoenix Press - Classic Editions Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

R.C. Jebb was Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

New Introduction
Notes to the Introduction
Select Bibliography
Preface to Revised Edition, 1888
Original Contents List

Selections from the Attic Orators
    Antiphon
    Andocides
    Lysias
    Isocrates
    Isaeus

Notes
Index I: Greek
Index II: Matters