| #1477810 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1990-01-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.32 x.55 x4.84l,.61 | File type: PDF | 248 pages | ||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Not much help on its own|By Maxwell O. Massa|Lysias is where learners of Greek who are ready to tackle their first original Attic prose generally turn. There are a number of commentaries on the market, and I urge the budding scholar to look elsewhere.
The text itself is fine enough and the print is sweetly legible, but the commentary is VERY scanty and the learner i|Language Notes|Text: Greek, English|About the Author|Charles Darwin Adams was Lawrence Professor of Greek in Dartmouth College.
The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century B.C. Six of his professional legal speeches are included in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and for the accessibility of their language. In his introduction, Dr. Carey discusses Lysias' life and place in the evolution of Greek prose style and in the development of Greek rhetoric. He approaches the speeches as attempts to se...
You easily download any file type for your device.Lysias: Selected Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) | Lysias. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
