Antiphon and Andocides: Speeches (Antiphontis Et Andocidis Orationes)

ISBN-13: 9780199605477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Mervin R. Dilts; David J. Murphy

Opis

This first Oxford Classical Text of the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides aims to set the standard for a definitive text of the speeches that will serve for the next century, taking into account all the significant manuscript evidence as well as the most compelling corrections proposed by scholars.

Recenzje

The edition... is surely the best one currently available for either of the orators, and it has the potential to be used for the century to come. Pavel Nývlt, Listy filologické

O autorze

Mervin R. Dilts was trained in Classics at Gettysburg College and Indiana University, before taking up teaching positions at Knox College and The University of Illinois. He joined the faculty of New York University in 1969 and for many years chaired the Department of Classics, also serving as a long-time financial trustee for the American Philological Association. His publications include editions of Heraclides' fragments on constitutions and a 1553 index of Greek books in the Vatican (co-authored with Mark L. Sosower and Antonio Manfredi), as well as Teubner editions of Aelian, Aeschines, and the Aeschinean and Demosthenic scholia, and a four-volume edition of Demosthenes' speeches in the Oxford Classical Texts series. Trained in Classics at Rutgers College and Columbia University, David J. Murphy taught Latin and Greek in high schools and colleges in New York before moving on to direct the high school divisions of St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School and, later, the Nightingale-Bamford School. He also served on the boards of the New York Classical Club and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, with terms as President of both associations. His publications include articles on Greek palaeography, textual criticism, and Socratic studies, both in journals and collections of essays, and he has co-authored several textbooks on Horace with Ronnie Ancona.