Hypereides : the forensic speeches
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Hypereides : the forensic speeches
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Bibliography: p. [477]-484
Includes indexes
Contents of Works
- Prosecution of Philippides for an illegal proposal
- Defence of Lykophron (by himself) against an impeachment
- Defence of Euxenippos against an impeachment
- Private prosecution of Atenogenes (by ?Epikrates) for damage(s)
- State prosecution of Demosthenes, after report, for receiving bribes
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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 a
complete 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.
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