Ancient biography of lysias
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Lysias
Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lysias’ life and works
* Features the complete extant works of Lysias, in both English translation and the original Greek
* Concise introductions to the orator
* Provides multiple translations of Lysias’ speeches
* Includes W. R. M. Lamb’s translation, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Lysias, with the original footnotes
* Also includes the anonymous 1897 translation, published by Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, New York
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the speeches you want to read with individual contents tables
* Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph — ideal for students
* Features two bonus biographies, including Plutarch’s ‘Life’— discover Lysias’ ancient world
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Brief Introduction to Lysias by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
The Speeches
The Orations of Lysias
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Lysias, Lysias
Lysias (ca. 458–ca. 380 BCE), born at Athens, son of a wealthy Syracusan settled in Attica, lived in Peiraeus, where with his brother he inherited his father's shield factory. Being a loyal supporter of democracy, Lysias took the side of the democrats at Athens against the Thirty Tyrants in 404, supplying shields and money. After one political speech in accusation of Eratosthenes (one of the Thirty) in 405, he became at Athens a busy professional speech writer for the lag courts. At the Olympic festival of 388 he denounced, with riotous results, the costly display of the embassy sent bygd Dionysius inom of Syracuse and the domination of Sicily bygd Dionysius.
The surviving speeches of Lysias (about thirty complete out of a very much larger number) are fluent, simple and graceful in style yet levande in description. They suggest a passionate partisan who was also a gentle humorous man. We see in him the art of oratory young and fresh.
Bibliogra
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Lysias (Syrian chancellor)
For other people named Lysias, see Lysias (disambiguation).
Regent of the Seleucid Empire
Lysias (; Greek: Λυσίας; Hebrew: ליזיאש; died 162 BC) was a 2nd-century BC general and governor of Syria under the Seleucid Empire.
Biography
[edit]The Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BC was huge; it possessed two heartlands, the capital at Antioch in Syria, and a secondary capital at Babylon in Mesopotamia. Seleucid rulers had to aggressively remind their client rulers of their loyalty lest the client rulers drift towards independence, as happened with various subkingdoms over time. King Antiochus IV Epiphanes left Antioch around summer of 165 BC on an expedition to the eastern satrapies; he would see to affairs in Babylonia, dismiss corrupt or overly independent officials, and attempt to exercise control over the drifting Persian provinces to what would become the Parthian Empire. Antiochus IV left Lysias in charge of the government of the Western hal