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Greek Orators IV: Andocides

Introduction, translation and commentary by M. Edwards

Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality. There is no crude, primitive stage of development: the earliest speeches are perfect in form and highly sophisticated in technique. They inform the reader about aspects of Greek society and about their moral values, in a direct and illuminating way not paralleled in other literature.~ Text with translation, commentary and notes. 232p (Aris and Phillips 1995)

Table of Contents

Preface
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The manuscript and text

THE SPEECHES
Introduction 1: On the mysteries
Text and translation
Introduction 2 On his return
Text and translation
Introduction 3: On the peace with the Spartans
text and translation
Introduction 4: Against Alcibiades

Apparatus Criticus
COMMENTARY

Appendix A: The family of Andocides
Appendix B: The family of Callias
Appendix C: The language and style of the against Alcibiades

Author Biography

Michael Edwards is a Professor in Classics at Queen Mary College, University of London. His research focus is on Athenian oratory and rhetoric of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. His publications include Oratory in Action (Manchester University Press 2004), The Oratory of Classical Greece: Isaeus (University of Texas Press 2003) and Greek Orators I: Antiphon & Lysias with S. Usher, in this series.

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