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Hypereides: The Forensic Speeches (Hardcover)
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(Sat May 25 02:38:37 2024) | Abebooks | Grand Eagle Retail | ISBN10: 0198152183, ISBN13: 9780198152187, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. The Athenian lawyer-politician Hypereides (390/89-322 BC) - a central figure in Athenian political life, patriot, bon viveur, contemporary of Demosthenes, and one of the canonical Ten Attic Orators - was credited in antiquity with more than seventy speeches. All were lost until the second half of the nineteenth century, when papyrus finds in Egypt recovered (in whole or part) six, five of them forensic. David Whitehead has for the first time provided acomplete commentary on all five of the surviving forensic speeches. This book includes a general introduction, a new and accurate translation, and lavish historical and literary commentary. This book, which includes a general introduction and lavish historical and literary commentary, represents the first complete collection of Hypereides' works in any language. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
[Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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