A Commentary on Lysias, Speeches 12-16
A commentary on speeches 12 to 16 of the Athenian orator Lysias, based on a close reading of the Greek text. The volume includes the text itself (reproduced from Christopher Carey's Oxford Classical Texts edition), extensive introductions to each of the speeches, and a detailed commentary on individual phrases.
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Lysias was the leading Athenian speech-writer of the generation (403-380 BC) following the Peloponnesian War. The speeches form a leading source for all aspects of Athenian history, with the current volume focusing on the aftermath of Athens' defeat and the short-lived but brutal oligarchy that followed it. It includes the text of speeches 12 to 16 (reproduced from Christopher Carey's 2007 Oxford Classical Texts edition, including the apparatus criticus), with a new facing English translation. Each speech receives an extensive introduction, covering general questions of interpretation, while in the lemmatic section of the commentary individual phrases are examined in detail, providing a close reading of the Greek text.
