Lysias

2 standalone books

Lysias was an Athenian logographer and one of the ten Attic orators canonized by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace. He wrote speeches for litigants during the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, with thirty-four speeches transmitted in the medieval corpus. His works are noted for their plain style, idiomatic diction, and concise narrative, and they provide historical insights into postwar Athens.