Selections from the attic orators
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Selections from the attic orators
（Classic editions from Bristol Phoenix Press）
Bristol Phoenix Press, 2005
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Selections from the attic orators : Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus
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Previous ed.: London. Macmillan & Co., 1888
Includes bibliographical references and index
Text in Greek with introduction, preface and notes in English
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
NEW INTRODUCTION
'Selections in context'
Jebb's standing in the field of oratory
Jebb's 'Selections'
Jebb's aims
Subsequent developments
Notes to the introduction
Select Bibliography
Preface to Revised Edition, 1888
Original Contents List
TEXT
'Selections from The Attic Orators':
Antiphon
Andocides
Lysias
Isocrates
Isaeus
NOTES
INDEX I Greek
INDEX II Matters
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