Lysias (Loeb Classical Library) (Greek and English Edition) by Lysias - 1930-01-01

Harvard University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harvard University Press & William Heinemann. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0674992695 . Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has tears and chipping and a bit tatty. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 244; 736 pages; 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 law courts. At the Olympic festival of 388 he denounced, with riotous results, the costly display of the embassy sent by Dionysius I of Syracuse and the domination of Sicily by Dionysius. The surviving speeches of Lysias (about thirty complete out of a very much larger number) are fluent, simple and… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univeristy Press, 1988. dj w/lite chipping, in mylar; owner's name; 706 clean, unmarked pages/index+publisher's listings; olive green c w/gilt decorations/titles, rubbing at edges, slight momttling. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univeristy Press, 1988. dj w/lite wear and rubbing, in mylar; 706 clean, unmarked pages/index+publisher's listings; olive green c w/gilt decorations/titles. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

Harvard University Press, 1930-01-01. hardcover. Used:Good.

Loeb Classical Library, 1979. Hardcover. New. 736 pages. 7.00x4.75x1.50 inches.

Hardback. New. Lysias (c. 458 c. 380 BCE) took the side of democracy against the Thirty Tyrants in 404 BCE. Of a much larger number about thirty complete speeches by him survive. Fluent, simple, and graceful in style yet vivid in description, they suggest a passionate partisan who was also a gentle, humorous man.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.