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Lysias
Sign in to saveLysias (; ; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was an Athenian logographer and one of the ten Attic orators later canonized by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace. He wrote speeches for litigants across a wide range of public and private actions during the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, with thirty-four transmitted in the medieval corpus and many others known by title or fragment. Ancient critics, especially Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and modern scholarship identify Lysias as an exemplar of the plain style, emphasizing idiomatic diction, character-appropriate voice, and concis
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- Orationes ad codicem Palatinum nunc denuo collatum
- Eratosthenes, hoc est, brevis et lvclvlenta definsio Lysiae pro caede Eratosthenis, praelectionibus illustrata Andreae Dvnaei ...
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Quotes
- “τοιαῦτα αὐτοῖς τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τοσαῦτα τὸ πλῆθος εἴργασται, ὥστε μήτ᾿ ἂν ψευδόμενον δεινότερα τῶν ὑπαρχόντων κατηγορῆσαι, μήτε τἀληθῆ βουλόμενον εἰπεῖν ἅπαντα δύνασθαι, ἀλλ᾿ ἀνάγκη ἢ τὸν κατήγορον ἀπειπεῖν ἢ τὸν χρόνον ἐπιλιπεῖν.”
- “παύσομαι κατηγορῶν. ἀκηκόατε, ἑοράκατε, πεπόνθατε, ἔχετε· δικάζετε.”
- “οὐχ ἅπαξ μέλλεις λέγειν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῶν δικαστῶν;”
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- Writer.name
- Lysias
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- Statue by Jean Dedieu (Gardens of Versailles)
- Writer.birth_date
- c. 445 BC
- Writer.birth_place
- Athens (traditional; sometimes given as Syracuse)
- Writer.death_date
- c. 380 BC
- Writer.occupation
- Logographer (speechwriter)
- Writer.notableworks
- Against Eratosthenes Against Agoratus Olympic Oration
- Writer.relatives
- Cephalus (father) Polemarchus (brother)
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Lysiae atheniensis unus e decem orationibus Orationes duae latinitati datae
Lysiae Atheniensis Orationes: graece et latine
Lysiae opera omnia :graece et latine ; cum versione nova, triplici indice, variantibus lectionibus et notis. 2. (1783). - 558 S.
Orationes et fragmenta :graece et latina
Ausgewählte Reden des Lysias
Lysiae. 1, Graecam orationem, Taylori et Marklandi annotationibus explanatam complectens
"Lysiah’s speeches
Lysiae opera omnia: graece et latine; cum versione nova, triplici indice, variantibus lectionibus et notis. 1. (1783). - XLIV, 539 S.
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Lysias (; ; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was an Athenian logographer and one of the ten Attic orators later canonized by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace. He wrote speeches for litigants across a wide range of public and private actions during the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, with thirty-four transmitted in the medieval corpus and many others known by title or fragment. Ancient critics, especially Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and modern scholarship identify Lysias as an exemplar of the plain style, emphasizing idiomatic diction, character-appropriate voice, and concise narrative framing. His speech Against Eratosthenes and the fragmentary Olympic Oration are commonly cited for historical evidence on postwar Athens and for programmatic statements on Greek politics.
==Life== According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the author of the life ascribed to Plutarch, Lysias was born in 459 BC, which would accord with a tradition that Lysias reached, or passed, the age of eighty. This date was evidently obtained by reckoning back from the foundation of Thurii (444 BC), since there was a tradition that Lysias had gone there at the age of fifteen. Modern critics, in general, place his birth later, c. 445 BC, and place the trip to Thurii around 430 BC.