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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Demosthenes. Demosthenes. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1926-1949 (OCoLC)646944025 |
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Named Person: | Demosthenes. |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Demosthenes. |
ISBN: | 0674992636 9780674992634 0674991710 9780674991712 0674993306 9780674993303 0674993519 9780674993518 0674993810 9780674993815 0674993861 9780674993860 0674994124 9780674994126 |
OCLC Number: | 10548749 |
Language Note: | Parallel Greek and English text. |
Notes: | Imprint varies. Vols. 1 and 3 translated by J.H. Vince; v. 2 by C.A. Vince and J.H. Vince; v. 4-6 by A.T. Murray; v. 7 by N.W. DeWitt and N.J. DeWitt. Greek and English on opposite pages. |
Description: | 7 volumes : portrait ; 17 cm. |
Contents: | v. 1. Olynthiacs. Philippics. Minor public speeches. Speech against Leptines.--v. 2. De Corona. De falsa legatione.--v. 3. Against Meidias, Androtion, Aristocrates, Timocrates, Aristogeiton.--v. 4-6. Private orations.--v. 7. Funeral speech. Erotic essay, Exordia, and Letters. |
Series Title: | Loeb classical library, 238, 155, 299, 318, 346, 351, 374.; Loeb classical library. |
Responsibility: | with an English translation by J.H. Vince. |
Abstract:
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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