LYCURGUS, One of the Ten Attic Orators

c.396–c.325 b.c., one of the Ten Attic Orators of the Alexandrian canon; pupil of Isocrates. A capable and honored public official, he administered the state finances from 338 to 326 b.c. and led (with Demosthenes) the anti-Macedonian party. One of his official acts ordered the editing and preserving of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. A single oration (Against Leocrates) is extant.

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Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators
Book by Edwin Carawan; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Intellectual Life, Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Oratory, Ancient, Political Oratory--Greece--Athens, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism
...the result of the orators choice of speeches for publication...speech, if anywhere, the orator might be...Lysias, and this is one of the characteristics...authenticity of all Attic oratory, not only...account from those ten centuries, we may...
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Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the Institutio Oratoria
Book by James J. Murphy; Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient, Rhetoric, Ancient
...Oratory and Orators . Translated...Micken. The Colonial Idiom...Elements of Rhetoric...from Books One, Two, and Ten of the Institutio...role of Book Ten of the Institutio...specific orators and writers...is always one of Quintilians...
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Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C
Book by Virginia J. Hunter; Princeton University Press, 1994
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Social Life And Customs, Police--Greece--Athens--History, Social Control--History
...reduced it to about one tenth that amount...eighteen years of age in the year 366/65, or ten years after...his suit. The ten-year guardianship did produce one open conflict...Demosthenes the elder had betrothed...house and some of its furnishings...
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The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians : and of the Dramatic Performances at Athens
Book by A. E. Haigh; The Clarendon Press, 1889
Subjects: Greek Drama--History And Criticism, Theater--Greece
...Sphinx, the Lycurgeia with the Lycurgus. In both these plays some of the personages out of the preceding...tetralogy may have been a secondary one, and that the word was used...was the custom of the Greek orators to write groups of four speeches...
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Ten Books on Architecture
Book by Leone Battista Alberti, James Leoni, Joseph Rykwert; Alec Tiranti, 1965
Subjects: Architecture--Early Works To 1800
...restatement of existing...has been the situation...rate. Only one systematic...Vitruvius Ten Books on...in the e Ten Books. In treating of which, we...of Matter; the fir t is...that the one is to be...Platform of ten Angles very...very well of twelve, nay...have seen one of twenty...very rare. The Side Lines...
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Lycurgus , One of the Ten Attic Orators
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LYCURGUS , one of the Ten Attic Orators c.396 c.325 b.c., one of the Ten Attic Orators of the Alexandrian...with Demosthenes) the anti-Macedonian party. One of his official acts...


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