Orations, Volume VI: Orations 50-59: Private Cases. in Neaeram
| AUTHOR | Demosthenes; Murray, A. T. |
| PUBLISHER | Harvard University Press (01/01/1939) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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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.
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9780674993860
ISBN-10:
0674993861
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Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Page Count:
464
Carton Quantity:
20
Product Dimensions:
4.52 x 0.96 x 6.71 inches
Weight:
0.72 pound(s)
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Bibliography,
Dust Cover,
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US
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Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Literary Collections | Speeches
Dewey Decimal:
888
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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.
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