Demosthenes Private Orations

by Demosthenes

• ISBN13: 9780674993860
• ISBN10: 0674993861
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1979-06-01
• Publisher: Loeb Classical Library

Summary

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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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 Text and Translation

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 Text and Translation

Euxitheus Against Eubulides, An Appeal

Introduction Text and Translation

Epichares Against Theocrines, A Criminal Information

Introduction Text and Translation

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

Introduction Text and Translation

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