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Possibly exiled from Thurii for his support of Athens following their failed invasion of Sicily, Lysias returned to Athens in the final years (perhaps 412/11 BCE) of the war with Sparta. If indeed the speech against Eratosthenes for the murder of his brother was Lysias’ first courtroom speech, it launched an immensely successful and productive career as a speech writer (logographos).
This speech, dating to 403/2 BCE and delivered by Lysias on his own behalf, appears to be his first foray into forensic oratory. Today, only 23 complete speeches ascribed to Lysias survive with another 12 in partial states of preservation, though not every speech in this collection is believed to be genuine.
3rd pers.pronoun; -self; [the] same
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Lysias' Life and Works
Lysias was a member of a wealthy and prominent family of metics, a legal category of resident immigrants in Athens who paid additional taxes and were restricted from participation in certain civic activities and institutions.
While Lysias managed to escape this unlawful detention with his life, his brother was killed by Eratosthenes. oh! The conditions of the amnesty did not apply, however, to those members of the Thirty shone to have committed homicide (Rhodes 1981: 468). Consequently, Lysias and his brother Polemarchos were arrested by agents of the Thirty, including a certain Eratosthenes.
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| αὐτός | unemph.
Over the next two decades, he composed upwards of 200 speeches. The amnesty agreement allowed members of the Thirty to remain in Athens and keep their citizen status if they submitted to a public examination (euthuna) of their activities under the oligarchy. 3rd pers.pronoun; -self; [the] same | 3 | 55 | (211.13) | (173.647) | (126.45) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ὅτι | adv.
Besides his speech against Eratosthenes and some further fragmentary speeches, most of what we know about Lysias’ life comes from several ancient biographies, whose authors had access to sources now lost. The vast majority of these speeches were composed as part of court cases, and as such provide a rich trove of material for historians of late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens. Beyond the general contours sketched above it is impossible to reconstruct an exact and detailed chronology of Lysias’ life given our current sources, even such major events as the date of his birth remain unclear. As a result, Cephalus socialized with the upper echelon of Athenian society. oh! page 1 of 2SHOW ALL 1–20 of 39 lemmas; 44 tokens (2,605 in work)
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