Orations, Volume II: Orations 18-19: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione

by Demosthenes, J. H. Vince, C. A. Vince

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674991712
Publisher:	Harvard
Publication date:	01/01/1926
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #155
Edition description:	7th printing/1st pub.1926/index
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x (d)

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• General & Miscellaneous Ancient Greek History