This volume completes the translation and commentary of all the surviving works of Lysias. Thus, the reader can have a complete picture of one of the greatest orators of antiquity, characterized by great wit and intellectual vigor.
As a logographer, he was preferred by numerous representatives of the religious, political, economic, and social life of then Athens to write the speeches that would be delivered in court to defend themselves as defendants or to accuse as prosecutors their positions in the cases being adjudicated, or to deliver celebratory or demonstrative speeches at public events.
In this way, various aspects and manifestations of the public and private life of the ancient Greeks are revealed, and information indirectly emerges on topics that were certainly not subjects for historians, poets, or philosophers to record, but illuminate such important facets of their daily lives.
