translated by Michael Gagarin & Douglas M. MacDowell.
First edition.
Austin :
University of Texas Press,
1998.
xxvii, 174 pages ;
22 cm.
The oratory of classical Greece ;
volume 1
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii) and index.
Preface -- Series introduction / Michael Gagarin -- Oratory in Classical Athens -- The orators -- The works of the orators -- Government and law in Classical Athens -- The yranslation of Greek oratory -- Abbreviations -- Note on currency -- Bibliography of works cited -- Antiphon (Michael Gagarin): Introduction -- 1. Against the stepmother -- The tetralogies -- 2. First tetralogy -- 3. Second tetralogy -- 4. Third tetralogy -- 5. On the murder of Herodes -- 6. On the chorus boy -- Fragment 1. On the Revolution -- Andocides (Douglas M. MacDowell): Introduction -- 1. On the Mysteries -- 2. On his return -- 3. On the peace with Sparta -- 4. Against Alcibiades -- Index.
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Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandals - the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteries - on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.
Antiphon's speeches are introduced and translated by Michael Gagarin, Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. Andocides' speeches are introduced and translated by Douglas M. MacDowell, Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow.
This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and justice. His six surviving works all concern homicide cases.