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On the Mysteries
Contributor(s): Andokides (Author), MacDowell, Douglas M. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0198146922     ISBN-13: 9780198146926
Publisher: Clarendon Press
OUR PRICE: $88.35  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 1989
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Annotation: More than any other work, the speech of Andokides, On the Mysteries, provides an intimate and vivid glimpse of Athenian political life during and directly after the Peloponnesian War. This new paperback version of MacDowell's standard edition (first published in hardcover in 1962) is intended
for both undergraduates and scholars. It includes a full introduction surveying Andokides's life, trial, and literary style; a note on the basis of the text; and a detailed commentary and appendices that discuss Andokides' innocence or guilt, the chronology and political significance of events in
415 B.C., the legal revision ordered by the decree of Teisamenos, the date of the trial and speech, and aspects of the historical and stylistic background relevant to the work.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- History | Ancient - Greece
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 885.01
LCCN: 88034508
Lexile Measure: 1170(Not Available)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.47" W x 8.55" L (0.65 lbs) 236 pages
 
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More than any other work, the speech of Andokides, On the Mysteries, provides an intimate and vivid glimpse of Athenian political life during and directly after the Peloponnesian War. This new paperback version of MacDowell's standard edition (first published in hardcover in 1962) is intended
for both undergraduates and scholars. It includes a full introduction surveying Andokides's life, trial, and literary style; a note on the basis of the text; and a detailed commentary and appendices that discuss Andokides' innocence or guilt, the chronology and political significance of events in
415 B.C., the legal revision ordered by the decree of Teisamenos, the date of the trial and speech, and aspects of the historical and stylistic background relevant to the work.
 
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