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Demosthenes (384322 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. The first of the seven volumes of the Demosthenes edition contains nine famous speeches in which he attempted to rouse athenian alarm about Macedonian ambitions: the three "Olynthiacs," the four "Philippics," "On the Peace," and "On the Chersonese." Here too are Philip of Macedon's letter to Athens declaring war and the Answer to Philip's letter.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Orations
• Author: Démosthenés
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 640
• EAN: 9780674992634
• ISBN: 0674992636
• ID: 04636807
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 452 g
• Dimensions: 384 × 235 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 1990

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