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Works by Isaeus
Booksplease Price: $32.65The foreigner whose style shaped Athens' greatest orator.Though he occupies a firm place in the canon of the ten Attic orators, Isaeus seems not to have been an Athenian, but a metic, being a native... -
The Speeches of Isaeus: With Critical and Explanatory Notes by Isaeus 9781108059367
Booksplease Price: $81.06Very little is known about the life of the Attic orator Isaeus, who was active during the first half of the fourth century BCE, and many of his speeches have been lost to posterity. Published in... -
Isaeus by Michael Edwards
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23This is the eleventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by... -
Orations 2 and 6 by Isaeus 9780929524962
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524962Author IsaeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn... -
The Attic Orators: From Antiphon To Isaeus V1 by Richard Claverhouse Jebb 9781498084369
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $48.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498084369Author Richard Claverhouse JebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Greek Orators IX: Isaeus Orations 5 and 11 Brenda Griffith-Williams 9781836243403
Booksplease Price: $140.79Isaeus, a professional speechwriter and expert in inheritance law, wrote Orations 5 and 11 for litigants from elite Athenian families engaged in bitter and protracted disputes over the property of... -
Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus by R.C Jebb 9781904675075
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $48.49This 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)... -
Greek Orators VIII: Isaeus Orations: 1, 2, 4 and 6 by Brenda Griffith-Williams
Booksplease Price: $134.29The four selected speeches were composed by a professional speechwriter, Isaeus, for litigants contesting inheritance claims in the Athenian courts of the fourth century BC. They offer some... -
Greek Orators VIII: Isaeus Orations: 1, 2, 4 and 6 Brenda Griffith-Williams 9781835538005
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.82The four selected speeches were composed by a professional speechwriter, Isaeus, for litigants contesting inheritance claims in the Athenian courts of the fourth century BC. They offer some... -
Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany, 1530-1680 Robert von Friedeburg 9780754601777
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.68Recent research has begun to highlight the importance of German arguments about legitimate resistance and self-defence for French, English and Scottish Protestants. This book systematically studies... -
The Demes of Attica, 508/7 -ca. 250 B.C.: A Political and Social Study by David Whitehead
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $80.06This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods. ... -
The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle S. Allen
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.64For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of... -
A New History of Classical Rhetoric by George A. Kennedy 9780691000596
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.13George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion... -
History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece by George A. Kennedy
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $57.15A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author... -
Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications of Limnology by Walter Dodds 9780128132555
RRP: $126.41Booksplease Price: $122.40Freshwater Ecology, Third Edition, covers everything from the basic chemical and physical properties of water, to the advanced and unifying concepts of community ecology and ecosystem relationships... -
Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts by Mike Edwards 9781032090436
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative... -
Five Speeches: 1, 12, 19, 22, 30 by Lysias 9781853994470
Booksplease Price: $33.42Lysias was one of the leading exponents of the art of speech-writing in the late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens. These five examples of his work cover a range of cases and offer an insight... -
The Works of Sir William Jones: With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth by Sir William Jones 9781108055772
Booksplease Price: $58.82A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746-94) was a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature. Known... -
The Critical Essays: v. 2: On Literary Composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Booksplease Price: $32.65A master of ancient Greek prose styles.Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BC, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BC, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the... -
The Critical Essays: v. 1 by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Booksplease Price: $32.65A master of ancient Greek prose styles.Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BC, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BC, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the... -
Works: v. 1 by Isocrates
Booksplease Price: $32.65The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and... -
Isocrates: v. 2 by Isocrates 9780674992528
Booksplease Price: $32.65The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts,... -
Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality by Stephen Usher 9780199250028
RRP: $114.81Booksplease Price: $91.14Speakers address audiences in the earliest Greek literature, but oratory became a distinct genre in the late fifth century and reached its maturity in the fourth. This book traces the development of... -
Speeches from Athenian Law by Michael Gagarin 9780292726383
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29This is the sixteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by... -
The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric by James Fredal
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $34.17Central to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to... -
The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric by James Fredal 9780271086132
RRP: $101.90Booksplease Price: $90.89Central to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to...