Excerpt from Selections From the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus; Being a Companion Volume to 'the Attic Orators From Antiphon to Isaeus' The principles which have guided the selection have been chiefly two - 1. To choose passages from each author which, taken together, should interpret as completely as possible his part in the general evolution of Attic prose style: 2. To take care that these passages should also possess intrinsic interest as illustrations of Greek thought, politics, or manners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.