Demosthenes: On the Crown

by Demosthenes , Edited by Harvey Yunis

• ISBN13: 9780521629300
• ISBN10: 0521629306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume presents a newly edited Greek text of one of the masterpieces of ancient Greek prose, a speech delivered by the orator Demosthenes before a court in Athens in 330 BCE. The book contains an introductory essay outlining the historical situation that gave rise to the speech, the nature of Demosthenes' rhetorical art, and the history of the text. The greater part of the book consists of a commentary that elucidates the text and makes clear how Demosthenes achieved his objectives.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
Map of Greece, Macedon, and the Aegean	xiii
Introduction
Athenian politics in response to Macedonian expansion	1	(6)
The graphe paranomon and the trial on Demosthenes' crown	7	(5)
Explaining Chaeronea	12	(5)
Demosthenes' rhetorical art	17	(9)
Speech, text, transmission	26	(9)
ΔHMOΣΘENOYΣ YΠEP KTHΣIΦWNTOΣ ΠEPI TOY ΣTEΦANOY	35	(70)
Commentary	105	(192)
Appendices
1 Synopsis of the argument	292	(2)
2 Timeline of major events	294	(3)
Bibliography	297
Indexes
Greek words	310
General	311