Author
Lysias
Athenian orator (c. 445 – c. 380 BC), born at Syracuse. From Wikidata; Wikipedia.
- Lived
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Kinds of writing
- Oratory (34)
- Dialect
- Attic
- In the library
- 34 works, 34 with an English translation; 64,652 words analysed
Where to begin
The works here with a translation and the most familiar vocabulary: the fewest rare words to look up. That is vocabulary only; grammar, dialect and ideas may still be demanding.
What Lysias wrote
- On the Murder of Eratosthenesὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἐρατοσθένους φόνου ἀπολογία
- Funeral OrationἘπιτάφιος τοῖς Κορινθίων βοηθοῖς
- Against Simonπρὸς Σίμωνα ἀπολογία
- On A Wound By Premeditationπερὶ τραύματος ἐκ προνοίας, ὑπὲρ οὗ καὶ πρὸς ὃν ἄδηλον
- For Calliasὑπὲρ Καλλίου ἱεροσυλίας ἀπολογία
- Against Andocidesκατ᾽ Ἀνδοκίδου ἀσεβείας
- On the Olive StumpἈρεοπαγιτικὸς περὶ τοῦ σηκοῦ ἀπολογία
- Accusation of Calumnyκατηγορία πρὸς τοὺς συνουσιαστὰς κακολογιῶν
- For The Soldierὑπὲρ τοῦ στρατιωτοῦ
- Against Theomnestus 1κατὰ θεομνήστου, Α
- Against Theomnestus 2κατὰ θεομν́ηστου, Β
- Against Eratosthenesκατὰ Ερατοσθένους τοῦ γενομένου τῶν τριάκοντα, ὃν αὐτὸς εἶπε Λυσίας
- Against Agoratusκατὰ Ἀγοράτου ἐνδείξεως
- Against Alcibiades 1κατὰ Ἀλκιβιάδου λιποταξίου
- Against Alcibiades 2κατὰ Ἀλκιβιάδου ἀστρατείας
- In Defense of Mantitheusἐν βουλῇ Μαντιθέῳ δοκιμαζομένῳ ἀπολογία
- On The Property Of Eratonπερὶ τῶν Ἐράτωνος χρημάτων: πρὸς τὸ δημόσιον
- On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Niciasπερὶ τῆς δημεύσεως τῶν τοῦ Νικίου ἀδέλφου ἐπίλογος
- On the Property of Aristophanesὑπὲρ τῶν Ἀριστοφάνους χρημάτων, πρὸς τὸ δημόσιον
- For Polystratusὑπὲρ Πολυστράτου
- Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribesἀπολογία δωροδοκίας ἀπαράσημος
- Against The Corn-Dealersκατὰ τῶν σιτοπωλῶν
- Against Pancleonκατὰ Παγκλέωνος ὅτι οὐκ ἦν Πλαταιεύς
- On The Refusal Of A PensionΠρὸς τὴν εἰσαγγελίαν περὶ τοῦ μὴ δίδοσθαι τῷ ἀδυνάτῳ ἀργύριον
- Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracyδήμου καταλύσεως ἀπολογία
- On the Scrutiny of Evandrosπερὶ τῆς Εὐάνδρου δοκιμασίας
- Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoysκατὰ Ἐπικράτους καὶ τῶν συμπρεσβευτῶν ἐπίλογος ὡς Θεόδωρος
- Against Ergoclesκατὰ Ἐργοκλέους ἐπίλογος
- Against Philocratesκατὰ Φιλοκράτους ἐπίλογος
- Against Nicomachusκατὰ Νικομάχου γραμματέως εὐθυνῶν κατηγορία
- Against Philonκατὰ Φίλωνος δοκιμασίας
- Against Diogeitonκατὰ Διογείτονος
- Olympic OrationΟλυμπιακός
- Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitutionπερὶ τοῦ μὴ καταλῦσαι τὴν πάτριον πολιτείαν Αθήνησι
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- The most mentioned words in Lysias (the Census)
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