Links to translations of the Attic Orators

The surviving speeches of the Attic orators of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. are available online in Perseus under Philologic 3. The following tables contain links to the English translations of the speeches of each orator. Links to the Greek text of the speeches are also provided. The Speeches of Demosthenes are listed separately.

Orators: Aeschines - Andocides - Antiphon - Demades - Dinarchus - Hypereides - Isaeus - Isocrates - Lycurgus - Lysias

Aeschines

Translated by C.D.Adams

1	Against Timarchus	Greek
2	On the Embassy	Greek
3	Against Ctesiphon	Greek

Andocides

Translated by K.J.Maidment

1	On the Mysteries	Greek
2	On His Return	Greek
3	On the Peace with Sparta	Greek
4	Against Alcibiades	Greek

Antiphon

Translated by K.J.Maidment

1	Prosecution Of The Stepmother For Poisoning	Greek
2	First Tetralogy: Prosecution for Murder	Greek
3	Second Tetralogy: Prosecution for Accidental Homicide	Greek
4	Third Tetralogy: Prosecution for Murder Of One Who Pleads Self-Defence	Greek
5	On the Murder of Herodes	Greek
6	On the Choreutes	Greek

Demades

Translated by J.O.Burtt

1	On the Twelve Years	Greek

Dinarchus

Translated by J.O.Burtt

1	Against Demosthenes	Greek
2	Against Aristogiton	Greek
3	Against Philocles	Greek

Hypereides

Translated by J.O.Burtt

1	In Defence of Lycophron	Greek
1a	Second Speech In Defence of Lycophron	Greek
2	Against Philippides	Greek
3	Against Athenogenes	Greek
4	In Defence of Euxenippus	Greek
5	Against Demosthenes	Greek
6	Funeral Speech	Greek

Isaeus

Translated by E.W.Forster

1	On The Estate of Cleonymus	Greek
2	On the Estate of Menecles	Greek
3	On The Estate Of Pyrrhus	Greek
4	On the Estate of Nicostratus	Greek
5	On the Estate of Dicaeogenes	Greek
6	On the Estate of Philoctemon	Greek
7	On The Estate of Apollodorus	Greek
8	On The Estate of Ciron	Greek
9	On the Estate of Astyphilus	Greek
10	On The Estate Of Aristarchus	Greek
11	On the Estate of Hagnias	Greek
12	On Behalf of Euphiletus	Greek

Isocrates

Translated by G.Norlin and L.Van Hook

1	To Demonicus	Greek
2	To Nicocles	Greek
3	Nicocles or the Cyprians	Greek
4	Panegyricus	Greek
5	To Philip	Greek
6	Archidamus	Greek
7	Areopagiticus	Greek
8	On the Peace	Greek
9	Euagoras	Greek
10	Helen	Greek
11	Busiris	Greek
12	Panathenaicus	Greek
13	Against the Sophists	Greek
14	Plataicus	Greek
15	Antidosis	Greek
16	Concerning the Team of Horses	Greek
17	Trapeziticus	Greek
18	Against Callimachus	Greek
19	Aegineticus	Greek
20	Against Lochites	Greek
21	Against Euthynus	Greek

Lycurgus

Translated by J.O.Burtt

1	Against Leocrates	Greek

Lysias

Translated by W.R.M.Lamb

1	On the Murder of Eratosthenes	Greek
2	Funeral Oration	Greek
3	Against Simon	Greek
4	On a Wound by Premeditation	Greek
5	For Callias	Greek
6	Against Andocides	Greek
7	On the Olive Stump	Greek
8	Accusation of Calumny	Greek
9	For the Soldier	Greek
10	Against Theomnestus 1	Greek
11	Against Theomnestus 2	Greek
12	Against Eratosthenes	Greek
13	Against Agoratus	Greek
14	Against Alcibiades 1	Greek
15	Against Alcibiades 2	Greek
16	For Mantitheus	Greek
17	On the Property of Eraton	Greek
18	On the Confiscation of the Property of the Brother of Nicias	Greek
19	On the Property of Aristophanes	Greek
20	For Polystratus	Greek
21	Defence against a Charge of Taking Bribes	Greek
22	Against the Corn Dealers	Greek
23	Against Pancleon	Greek
24	On the Refusal of a Pension	Greek
25	Defence against a Charge of subverting the Democracy	Greek
26	On the Scrutiny of Evandros	Greek
27	Against Epicrates and his Fellow Envoys	Greek
28	Against Ergocles	Greek
29	Against Philocrates	Greek
30	Against Nicomachus	Greek
31	Against Philon	Greek
32	Against Diogeiton	Greek
33	Olympic Oration	Greek
34	Against the Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution of Athens	Greek

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