This volume contains all the complete works and 11 of the largest fragments attributed to Lysias. These speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, and other aspects of Athenian cutlure. As a noncitizen resident of Athens, Lysias could take no direct part in politics, but his speeches, written for clients to deliver in court, paint vivid pictures of various private and public disputes - one speaker defends himself on a charge of murdering a wife's lover, while another is accused of having caused the deaths of democratic activists. Lysias' speeches are introduced and translated by Stephen Todd, and the translations are especially designed to meet the needs of Greekless undergraduates as well as the general reader.