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On the Murder of Eratosthenes (A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-beginners, Unit 1: Forensic Oratory) by Lysias, Malcolm Campbell

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The rhetoric of Lysias in this speech is phenomenal. He stacks argument upon argument and uses all kinds of subtle wordplay to guide the jury into hopefully siding with his client, Euphilitus, against the family of Eratosthenes, the now-dead lover of Mrs Euphilitus. This speech could either be a real-life speech written for Euphilitus to defend himself in front of a jury or as a rhetorical exercise for speech-writing practice as a lawyer. Either way, it was worth the struggle of getting through the Greek to read it.