<em>ON A CHARGE OF OVERTHROWING THE DEMOCRACY</em> – LYSIAS’S POLITICAL PAMPHLET AGAINST THE COLLECTIVE GUILT

Abstract

The author of the paper analyzes Lysias’s speech 25 of the Corpus Lysiacum. The speech is understood as Lysias’s political pamphlet in which he, as the writer of the speech for the procedure of dokimasia, expresses his protest against the collective guilt, pointing out deficiencies and abuses of democratic institutions. The paper is supported by the author’s translation of Lysias’s 25 which is the first translation from Greek into Serbian.