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Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Spine slightly sunned.; Xxvii, 174pp. 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. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandalsâ"the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteriesâ"on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.; Oratory of Classical Greece Volume 1; 174 pages.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Spine slightly sunned else book is fine.; Xxvii, 174pp. 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. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandalsâ"the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteriesâ"on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.; Oratory of Classical Greece Volume 1; 174 pages.…