Orations, Volume VI: Orations 50-59: Private Cases. In Neaeram

by Demosthenes, A. T. Murray (Translator)

Overview

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.

Demosthenes (384–322 BC), 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 Philip of Macedon’s rise 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:	9780674993860
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1939
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #351
Edition description:	5th printing/1st pub.1939
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Augustus Taber Murray (1866–1940) was Professor of Greek at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Bibliography

Order Of The Orations According To Blass's Text

Table Of Athenian Money

Apollodorus Against Polycles For Expenses Incurred While Serving As Trierarch Beyond The Appointed Time—

Introduction

Text and Translation

On The Trierarchic Crown, By An Unknown Pleader—

Introduction

Text and Translation

APOLLODORUS AGAINST CALLIPPUS—

Introduction

Text and Translation

APOLLODORUS AGAINST NICOSTRATUS IN THE MATTER OF INFORMATION FILED CONCERNING SLAVES OF ARETHUSIUS—

Introduction

Text and Translation

ARISTON AGAINST CONON, AN ACTION FOP ASSAULT—

Introduction

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THE SON OF TEISIAS AGAINST CALLICLES, REGARDING DAMAGE TO A PIECE OF PROPERTY—

Introduction

Text and Translation

DAREIUS AGAINST DIONYSODORUS IN THE MATTER OF A LOAN—

Introduction

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EUXITHEUS AGAINST EUBULIDES, AN APPEAL——

Introduction

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EPICHARES AGAINST THEOCRINES, A CRIMINAL INFORMATION—

Introduction

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THEOMNESTUS AND APOLLODORUS AGAINST NEAERA—

Introduction

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