Orators of Ancient Greece

This volume is devoted to the earliest period in the history of oratory. That period began with Homer about 1000 B.C., and ended at the death of Demosthenes in 323 B.C.In addition to the works of the so-called Attic Canon, this book includes translations of: a fragment of the Funeral Oration, by Gorgias; the peroration of the speech on the Murder of Herodes, by Antiphon; a portion of the speech on the Mysteries by Andocides; selections from the Oration against Leocrates, by Lycurgus; and all the extant portion of the Olympic Oration, by Lysias.The realization that not one of the orations presented in this volume is less than two thousand years old, will aid the reader to appreciate these masterpieces, which, though differing in style from those of modern times, are yet the foundation of the oratory of today.Lee, Guy is the author of 'Orators of Ancient Greece' with ISBN 9781410201065 and ISBN 1410201066.