LYSIAS

lĭsˈēəs, c.459–c.380 b.c., Attic orator; son of Cephalus, a Syracusan. After the capture (404 b.c.) of Athens by the Spartans, the Thirty Tyrants caused the arrest of Lysias and his brother Polemarchus, who was put to death. Lysias escaped to Megara, from which he returned when the tyrants were expelled (403 b.c.). He prosecuted Eratosthenes for his brother's death, and his oration against Eratosthenes is a model of Greek oratory. The tyrants had deprived him of his wealth, and he adopted the profession of writing speeches for litigants. Only 34 of his orations are extant. The clarity and elegance of his style place him among the very finest Greek orators and prose writers.

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books on: Lysias  - 954 results

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Lysias
Book by W. R. M. Lamb, Lysias; W. Heinemann, 1930
Subjects: Essays
...During these perilous and disastrous times Lysias and Polemarchus were apparently carrying...like citizens. a For some of these years Lysias seems to have kept a rhetorical school...hastened by imprisonment and execution. Lysias and Polemarchus were arrested : we read...
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The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics
Book by Debra Nails; Hackett, 2002
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Biography, Plato--Dialogues, Plato--Friends And Associates, Socrates--Friends And Associates
...take from Metaneira any gifts or money Lysias might give her, but that her initiation would be inalienable. For Lysias connections to Thrasymachus, including...them for opposition to the regime. Lysias speech 12 of 403/2 accuses a former...
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Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality
Book by Stephen A. Usher; Oxford University, 1999
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism
FROHBERGER H., Ausgewahlte Reden des Lysias , i-iii Leipzig, 1866-71 . GERNET L., and BIZOS M., Lysias: discours Bude; Paris, 1924, 1926 . GRAU P., Prooemiengestaltung bei Lysias Wurzburg, 1971 . HILLGRUBER M., Die zehnte Rede...
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Fifty Key Classical Authors
Book by Alison Sharrock, Rhiannon Ash; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Civilization, Classical--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Classical Literature--Chronology--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Classical Literature--History And Criticism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...reflect well on Simon. Carey notes that Lysias deliberately describes the climax of the...the speaker split his head open, but Lysias avoidance of clear syntax neatly implies...impossible. Not all of the cases for which Lysias wrote speeches had such scope for humour...
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A New History of Classical Rhetoric
Book by George A. Kennedy; Princeton University Press, 1994
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient, Persuasion (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Latin--History And Criticism
Lysias made two great contributions to Greek oratory...striking figures, it is never bald or dull. Lysias' style conceals its art. The basis of...as current among the sophists. Second, Lysias profited from the experience in composition...
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journal articles on: Lysias  - 47 results

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On the Role of Topical Potential in the Concluding Stage: A Pragma-Dialectical Case Study of Lysias I, on the Death of Eratosthenes
Journal article by Abigail Selzer King, Leah E. Polcar; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 46, 2010
Subjects: Dialectic--Research, Eratosthenes--Death of, Lysias--Works, On the Murder of Eratosthenes (Speech)--Criticism and interpretation, Pragmatism--Research
...A Pragma-Dialectical Case Study of Lysias I, on the Death of Eratosthenes. by...Eratosthenes. Our argumentation analysis tracks Lysias use of topical potential and its eventual...the development in topical potential in Lysias oration On the Death of Eratosthenes...
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The United States Africa Command: Security for Whom?
Journal article by Lysias Dodd Gilbert, Ufo Okeke Uzodike, Christopher Isike; The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online), Vol. 2, 2009
The United States Africa Command: Security for Whom? by Lysias Dodd Gilbert , Ufo Okeke Uzodike , Christopher Isike Introduction As recent as 1995, the United States of Americas (U.S...
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Cold Case Files: The Athenian Grain Merchants, 386 B.C
Journal article by Wayne R. Dunham; The Cato Journal, Vol. 28, 2008
Subjects: Athens, Greece--Economic aspects, Athens, Greece--History, Food prices--History, Food prices--Laws, regulations and rules, Grain industry--Economic aspects, Grain industry--History
...events is a contemporaneous speech that Lysias, a Greek orator, wrote for an unnamed...society that is routinely villainized, Lysias is not likely to be an unbiased source...observed in a modern antitrust trial. Lysias began by outlining the important facts...
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'Phaedrus
Journal article by Yoav Rinon; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 46, 1993
Subjects: Deconstruction--Philosophy, Derrida, Jacques--Philosophy, Phaedrus (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plato--Philosophy
...While the Sophists Thrasymachus and Lysias are mentioned in connection with dialectic...12) while following the Sophists Lysias and Thrasymachus, since they cannot be...recently one of the politicians railed at him Lysias, and reproached him calling him through...
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Memory, Myth, and Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus
Journal article by Thomas S. Frentz; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Memory, Mythology, Phaedrus, Philosophers, Plato, Rhetoric, Writing
...on love recently given by the sophist, Lysias. Phaedrus recites the speech, Socrates...Empcrates house listening to the sophist, Lysias, deliver speeches. When he meets Socrates...might read and re-read the manuscript of Lysias speech on love (Plato 3-6). Encapsulated...
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The Great Emancipator: The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln Inspired Famed Choreographer Bill T. Jones to Create His Most Ambitious Work Yet
Magazine article by Joshua David Stein; The Advocate, November 2009
Subjects: Choreographers--Works, Fondly Do We Hope ... Fervently Do We Pray (Dance)--Personalities, Jones, Bill T. (American dancer)--Works, Lincoln, Abraham--Influence
...An overstatement, perhaps. To fully appreciate Lincolns formal orations, one would do well to have studied Demosthenes, Lysias, and Antiphon, but his phrases--from "four score and seven years ago" to "fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray...


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newspaper articles on: Lysias  - 5 results

 
 
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Today's Heat Sheet
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 29, 2008
Subjects: Athletic shoe industry, Nike Inc., Pappas, Tom M.
...unattached 5 297 Raven Cepeda unattached 6 435 Lysias Edmonds Arizona Puma 7 920 Rickey Moody...unattached 2 313 Mat Clark unattached 3 435 Lysias Edmonds Arizona Puma 4 137 Jake Arnold...Name Team Flight 1 of 2 Finals 1 435 Lysias Edmonds Arizona Puma 2 1064 Chris Randolph...
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Today's Heat Sheet
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 30, 2008
Subjects: Athletic shoe industry, Nike Inc., Pappas, Tom M.
...920 Rickey Moody Washington State 7 435 Lysias Edmonds Arizona Puma 8 1064 Chris Randolph...Name Team Flight 1 of 2 Finals 1 435 Lysias Edmonds Arizona Puma 2 313 Mat Clark Northern...Hardee Nike 4 1000 Tom Pappas Nike 5 435 Lysias Edmonds Arizona Puma 6 137 Jake Arnold...
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Software That's in the 'Know'
Newspaper article by Bob Kerlin; The Washington Times, June 13, 1997
...may be KTN - "Know the Neighborhood." This designation will be used by Realtors using a new CD-ROM program produced by Lysias Inc. that allows Realtors to quickly provide a snapshot of any neighborhood for their clients. In one software package (updated...
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Court in Brief
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 31, 2011
...fined pounds 100, ordered to pay pounds 50 costs and a pounds 15 victim surcharge for using a vehicle without insurance. Lysias Madzivadondo, 25, of St Marys Close, Stockton, fined pounds 80, ordered to pay pounds 50 costs and a pounds 15 victim surcharge...
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UO Bids to Be Regular Host of NCAA Meet
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 7, 2009
...Danielle McNaney, Kasey Hill, Alisha Adams and Emily Pearson. The U.S. decathlon team includes Chris Randolph, Paul Terek, Lysias Edmonds, Nick Adcock, Michael Marsh, Tom Pappas and Joe Detmer. The multi-event competition is a dual meet between the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Lysias  - 8 results

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Lysias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LYSIAS lis e s, c.459 c.380 b.c., Attic orator; son...the Spartans, the Thirty Tyrants caused the arrest of Lysias and his brother Polemarchus, who was put to death. Lysias escaped to Megara, from which he returned when the tyrants...
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Lysias, Claudius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LYSIAS, CLAUDIUS see Claudius Lysias . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Claudius Lysias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLAUDIUS LYSIAS lis e s, in the Acts of the Apostles, official at Jerusalem who saved Paul from the mob. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Antiphon , Athenian Orator
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...among the first to be executed before Alcibiades returned. See R. K. Sprague, The Older Sophists (1972); Antiphon and Lysias (tr. by M. Edwards and S. Usher, 1985). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Epaminondas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EPAMINONDAS ipaminon d s, d. 362 b.c., Greek general of Thebes. He was a pupil of Lysias the Pythagorean, but his early life is otherwise obscure. As the Theban delegate to the peace conference of 371 b.c. he refused...
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