Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Orationes aliquot ex Herodoti, Thucydidis, Xenophontis: Livii itidem Caesaris, …
Typology: Translation | Language: Latin | Place of publication: Strasbourg | Publisher: ex officina Myliana, impensis Bernhardi Iobini | Year: 1586
Greek Text: yes
Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | The Debate on Mytilene
Translation of Thucydidean speeches by Valla 1452: Thuc. 3.37-40 (Speech of Cleon), 3.42-48 (Speech of Diodotus), 4.59-64 (Speech of Hermocrates), 4.85-87 (Speech of Brasidas), 1.32-36 (Speech of the Corcyraeans), 1.37-43 (Speech of the Corinthians), 2.35-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), 1.68-71 (Speech of the Corinthians), 1.73-78 (Speech of the Athenians), 1.80-85 (Speech of Archidamus), and 1.86 (Speech of Stenelaidas). The volume also includes translations of speeches from Herodotus, Xenophon, Livy, Caesar, and Sallust.
The book was edited by Melchior Junius (1545-1604), humanist, rhetorician, and academic administrator associated with the Gymnasium Illustre in Strasbourg. A student of the Gymnasium Illustre in Strasbourg and protégé of Johann Sturm, Junius became Professor of Rhetoric and, from 1581, permanent rector of the institution. His scholarly work contributed to the evolution of rhetorical education by blending Ciceronian principles with Aristotelian political themes and historical analysis. DB
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