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Bust of Lysias, Roman copy of a Greek original, Naples (photograph by Sailko, CC BY 3.0)
Bust of Lysias, Roman copy of a Greek original, Naples (photograph by Sailko, CC BY 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

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Lysias

c. 445–c. 380 BC · Speechwriter

A rich resident foreigner whose brother was killed and whose fortune was seized by the Thirty Tyrants. Ruined, he wrote speeches for others to deliver in court, in a style so plain and natural that it became the model of Attic prose.

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Lysias lesen.

34 Werke

Thirty-four speeches, from On the Murder of Eratosthenes to the Olympic Oration, in Greek beside English.

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