How Long to Read Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum

How Long Does it Take to Read Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum by K. J. Dover

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written versions of the speeches that he composed for them. In the early Hellenistic period, a corpus of more than four hundred speeches was ascribed to him; however, literary critics in the first century C.E. formed the opinion that scarcely more than half that number were correctly ascribed. In late Roman times, a small selection of speeches was made without regard for the opinions of critics on authenticity, and that selection has survived. Our knowledge of the remainder is fragmentary and indirect. K. J. Dover examines the extent to which, and the means by which, the work of the individual Lysias can be distinguished within the total corpus ascribed to him. One part of the examination is an attempt to reconstruct the entire process of transmission, from the making of the late Roman selection through the internal arrangement of the corpus in ancient editions to the relation between client and consultant at the time of writing. The other part evaluates the criteria used to establish authenticity: chronology, ideology, and style. Dover concludes that any demand for a clear division of the speeches into two categories, authentic and spurious, is unreasonable and methodologically unsound. Instead, we must content ourselves with degrees of probability and treat the corpus as presenting us not with an individual but with certain aspects of Athenian art and society. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

How long is Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum?

Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum by K. J. Dover is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum aloud.

What Reading Level is Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum?

Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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