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Oratores Attici

1824 · rif. 000015188 — Berolini: G.E. Reimeri 1824. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 vol. For pagination please inquire. Mid nineteenth-century calf with the spines in six compartments spines each with gold decorations and rules and with a red and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Text in ancient Greek. Notes below the text in Greek and Latin. From the review and editing of Immanuel Bekker. Graesse V 34. Halton & O'Leary OA3. According to Graesse Oxford published Bekker's work on the Attic Orators from 1822 to 1828. Bekker's work on Aristotle and Plato remains relevant and useful to modern classicists. The orators included in this set were known as Sophists politicians or philosophers. The speeches illuminate life in Athens over time: the politics of classical Athens the conditions of the city and its people during the Peloponnesian War the events Athenians took part in during the rise of Macedonia and the politics of Greece under the rule of Rome. An attractively bound collection of the most famous speeches delivered in Attic and in Hellenistic Greece. Volume one's joints renewed the edges of the boards rubbed with a few corners and boards' edges exposed a small abrasion to volumes two and four. G.E. Reimeri hardcover