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Preface
Sources
Annals
Introduction
Antiphon: Life
Antiphon: Style
Antiphon: Works
Andokides: Life
Andokides: Style
Andokides: Works
Lysias: Life
Lysias: Style
Lysias: Epideictic and deliberative speeches
Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Public Causes
Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Private Causes; Miscellaneous Writings; Fragments
Isokrates: Life
Isokrates: Theory of Culture
Isokrates: Style
Isokrates: Classification of Works; Scholastic Writings
Isokrates: Political Writings
Isokrates: Forensic speeches
Isokrates: Letters and Fragments
Isaeos: Life
Isaeos: Style
Isaeos: Works
The Matured Civil Eloquence.
Retrospect.
The Decline and the Revival.
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Lysias a literary artist
Lysias the representative of the Plain Style.
Originality of Lysias.
Had his style been florid before it became plain?
Special characteristics of his style.
Êthopoiïa.
The ‘propriety’ and ‘charm’ of Lysias.
His treatment of subject, matter.
Parts of the oration
General qualities resulting from character
Defects of Lysias as an orator.
The eloquence of Lysias rarely passionate.
Place of Lysias in the history of Rhetoric.
Lysias and his Successors.
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Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Public Causes
IV. Causes relating to a scrutiny (
δοκιμασία
) before the senate; especially of officials designate.
Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Private Causes; Miscellaneous Writings; Fragments
Isaeos: Works
The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1876.
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