Michael Gagarin

A compilation of speeches covering key issues in Athenian law, drawn from the Oratory of Classical Greece series, that is intended primarily for use in teaching courses in Greek law or related areas such as Greek history.

This book convincingly argues that Antiphon the orator and Antiphon the Sophist were the same person.

Speeches from the two earliest Greek orators whose works still survive.

Controlled entirely by the city-state’s ordinary citizens, the Athenian legal system is one of the most unorthodox the world has ever known, and Michael Gagarin offers an in-depth explanation of how that worked.