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As examples of Greek oratory the speeches of Aeschines (390 or 389-314 BCE) rank next to those of Demosthenes, and are important documents for the study of Athenian diplomacy and inner politics. Aeschines' powerful speeches include Against Timarchus, On the False Embassy, and Against Ctesiphon.
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Very little is known about the life of the Attic orator Isaeus, who was active during the first half of the fourth century BCE, and many of his speeches have been lost to posterity. Published in 1904, these surviving speeches, presented in the original Greek with extensive commentary by the classical scholar William Wyse (1860-1929), are mostly concerned with the convoluted intrigue of inheritance disputes. Wyse regarded Isaeus as 'an unscrupulous falsifier of law and fact in the service of clients whose claims to the estates they contested were, without exception, fraudulent'. While modern scholars may not fully share this view, Wyse's monumental and learned edition is still a standard work in the study of ancient family law. In addition to a critical introduction, the texts of the speeches, and the detailed commentary, this work also includes family trees to aid understanding of the complex cases.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. --- Inheritance and succession (Greek law) --- Isaeus, --- Law, Greek --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Isaios, --- Isajos, --- Isej, --- Iseo, --- Iseu,
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This is the first edition of ten Funeral Orations of Michael Psellos based on all the manuscripts preserving those works and accompanied by a full apparatus fontium and the necessary critical apparatus. Some of those texts had been published by the Greek scholar Konstantinos Sathas at the end of the XIX c. Those editions hardly correspond to the contemporary standards. The same applies to several more recent editions, prepared by P. Gautier, which also leave much to be desired. The most important texts of our collection are the funeral orations for the patriarchs Michael Keroullarios, Konstantinos Leichoudes and John Xiphilinos, a personal friend of Michael Psellos. All the texts offer valuable details concerning Psellos's early life; at the same time they constitute an important testimony to the survival of the Late Antique Rhetoric in XI c. Byzantium. They constitute a necessary supplement to Psellos's more famous work, his Chronography, verifying and shedding a new light on the events narrated there.
Funeral orations --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. --- Eloges funèbres --- Discours grecs --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Byzantine prose literature. --- Funeral orations. --- Eloges funèbres --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Occasional speeches --- Byzantine literature. --- Michael Psellos. --- funeral oration.
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Lysias (c. 458-c. 380 BCE) took the side of democracy against the Thirty Tyrants in 404 BCE. Of a much larger number about thirty complete speeches by him survive. Fluent, simple, and graceful in style yet vivid in description, they suggest a passionate partisan who was also a gentle, humorous man.
Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Political science --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Lysias --- Lisias --- Lusias --- Translations into English. --- Greece --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Discours grecs --- Lisia --- Λυσίας
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Isaeus (c. 420-350 BCE) composed speeches for others. He shares with Lysias pure Attic and lucidity of style, but his more aggressive and flexible presentation undoubtedly influenced Demosthenes. Of at least fifty attributed orations, there survive eleven on legacy cases and a large fragment dealing with a claim of citizenship.
Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Discours grecs --- Translations into English --- Traductions anglaises --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. --- Forensic orations --- Greek literature --- Inheritance and succession (Greek law) --- Inheritance and succession --- Isaeus, --- Greece --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Law, Greek --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Arguments, Legal --- Legal arguments --- Oral pleading --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Trial practice --- Forensic oratory --- Law and legislation --- Isaios, --- Isajos, --- Isej, --- Iseo, --- Iseu,
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