Question
This orator's "On the Murder of Eratosthenes" is often used as a source for women's lives in Classical Athens. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this orator, who was active in the decades before Demosthenes (deh-MAHS-thuh-neez) became prominent. This orator wrote a speech prosecuting a different Eratosthenes for the murder of this orator's brother, Polemarchus.
ANSWER: Lysias
[10e] The Eratosthenes (air-uh-TOSS-thuh-neez) prosecuted by Lysias was a member of this political group. Critias was another member of this oligarchic group that ruled Athens after the end of the Peloponnesian War.
ANSWER: Thirty Tyrants [or triakonta tyrannoi; prompt on Thirty or Tyrants]
[10m] Lysias' second speech, whose authorship is often disputed, is written for one of these occasions. In Thucydides' (thoo-SID-uh-deez) Histories, Pericles delivers a speech at one of these public occasions.
ANSWER: state funerals [or burials or taphe or taphos or ekphora]
<Alexandra Hardwick , History - Other - Ancient>
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