Selections from the Attic Orators - Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus (Paperback)

This edition (2nd 1880) was designed by Jebb as a companion to his monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1974). The selection was meticulously made, as he himself emphasized, not merely as "samples from a number of writers" but as illustration of "successive steps in the process by which a language of most elastic resource was gradually adapted to a certain set of purposes." The authors represented bridge the gap between the prose of Gorgias and Thucydides and that of Demonsthenes. At the same time the selections have their social and historical interest, reflecting Jebb's conviction that "few authors ... present more vivid or instructive pictures of Greek society." That the edition survived in regular use by students for a hundred years says much for its quality. This reissue carries a substantial new introduction in which Pat Easterling assesses Jebb's scholarship and within it his work on the orators, while Michael Edwards writes more specifically about the edition's strengths and influences.

General

Imprint:	Bristol Phoenix Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	June 2005
Editors:	R.C. Jebb
Introduction by:	P. E. Easterling • Michael Edwards
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-1-904675-07-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Promotions
LSN:	1-904675-07-7
Barcode:	9781904675075

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