One of the canonical Athenian orators, Lysias was much admired in antiquity. This new critical edition seeks to make the whole surviving corpus of Lysias available to the modern reader. It combines a newly edited text of the speeches preserved in the medieval manuscript tradition (based on the most up-to-date evaluation of the transmission) with a comprehensive collection of the fragments preserved indirectly through citation in ancient sources and in papyrus discoveries in the twentieth century. A general introduction in English provides an overview of the transmission of the text in antiquity and the Renaissance. An appendix contains a number of speeches almost certainly not written by Lysias but occasionally attributed to him in modern times.

About the Author
Christopher Carey is Professor of Greek, University College London.

Reviews
a lucid account... The collecion of fragments is the fullest ever * Malcolm Heath, Greece and Rome *
the reviewer is... left only to commend without reserve the chalkenteric industry and scholarship of the editor. * Stephen Usher, JHS *
...it ought to remain a standard text for many years... * Douglas M. Macdowell, The Classical Review *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198140726
Author Christopher Carey
Page Count 616
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 193mm * 130mm * 39mm