Orations / Demosthenes.

Author/creator Demosthenes author.
Format Electronic
EditionPartially revised.
PublicationCambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Oratory, Ancient.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Other author/creatorDe Witt, Norman Johnston, translator.
Other author/creatorDe Witt, Norman W. (Norman Wentworth), 1876-1958, translator.
Other author/creatorMurray, A. T. (Augustus Taber), 1866-1940, translator.
Other author/creatorVince, C. A. (Charles Anthony), 1855- translator.
Other author/creatorVince, J. H. (James Herbert), 1865-1955 translator.
SeriesLoeb Classical Library ; 155, 238, 299, 318, 346, 351, 374
Loeb classical library ; 155, 238, 299, 318, 346, 351, 374. ^A467228
Contents v. I. Orations 1-17 and 20: Olynthiacs 1-3. Philippic 1. On the peace. Philippic 2. On Halonnesus. On the Chersonese. Philippics 3 and 4. Answer to Philip's letter. Philip's letter. On organization. On the navy-boards. For the liberty of the Rhodians. For the people of Megalopolis. On the treaty with Alexander. Against Leptines / with an English translation by J.H. Vince -- v. II. Orations 18-19: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione / with an English translation by C.A. Vince and J.H. Vince -- v. III. Orations 21-26: Against Meidias. Against Androtion. Against Aristocrates. Against Timocrates. Against Aristogeiton 1 and 2 / with an English translation by J.H. Vince -- v. IV. Orations 27-40: Private orations / with an English translation by A.T. Murray -- v. V. Orations 41-49: Private orations / with an English translation by A.T. Murray -- v. VI. Orations 50-59: Private orations. In Neaeram / with an English translation by A.T. Murray -- v. VII. Orations 60-61: Funeral speech. Erotic essay. Exordia. Letters / with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt and Norman J. Dewitt.
Abstract Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a champion of Athenian greatness and Greek resistance to Philip of Macedon. His steadfastness, pungent argument, and severe control of language gained him early reputation as the best of Greek orators, and his works provide vivid pictures of contemporary life. Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We possess by him political speeches and law-court speeches composed for parties in private cases and political cases. His early reputation as the best of Greek orators rests on his steadfastness of purpose, his sincerity, his clear and pungent argument, and his severe control of language. In his law cases he is the advocate, in his political speeches a castigator not of his opponents but of their politics. Demosthenes gives us vivid pictures of public and private life of his time. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Demosthenes is in seven volumes.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web.
LanguageText in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Demosthenes. Orations. Partially rev. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1930 9780674992634(v.1) 9780674991712(v.2) 9780674993303(v.3) 9780674993518(v.4) 9780674993815(v.5) 9780674993860(v.6) 9780674994126(v.7)
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