Aeschines

SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE

Name /T1076/T1076_FM 03/29/00 05:12AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 9 # 9 SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE This is the third volume in a series of translations of The Oratory of Classical Greece. The aim of the series is to make available primarily for those who do not read Greek up-to-date, accurate, and readable translations with introductions and explanatory notes of all the surviving works and major fragments of the Attic orators of the classical period (ca. 420 –320 bc): Aeschines, Andocides, Antiphon, Demosthenes , Dinarchus, Hyperides, Isaeus, Isocrates, Lycurgus, and Lysias. This volume contains the three surviving speeches of Aeschines, an orator traditionally overshadowed by his main adversary, Demosthenes , but whose considerable talents have recently been attracting interest in their own right, not least for his attack on the sexual immorality of Timocrates in Oration 1. Aeschines won the first two rounds of his struggle against Demosthenes before being overwhelmingly defeated in their final contest. I am again grateful for the full support of the University of Texas Press, especially from Director Joanna Hitchcock, Humanities Editor Jim Burr, and the production staff, especially Managing Editor Carolyn Wylie. — m. g. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...