On the False Embassy (Oration 19): Edited with Introduction and Commentary - Hardcover

Demosthenes

 
9780198153030: On the False Embassy (Oration 19): Edited with Introduction and Commentary
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198153031 ISBN 13: 9780198153030
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

In 346 BC. the Athenians negotiated a peace treaty with King Philip II of Macedon, but afterwards one of the Athenian ambassadors, Demosthenes, accused another, Aiskhines, of accepting a bribe from Philip to contrive that the terms of the treaty should be favourable to him. The case came to trial three years later, and On the False Embassy is the speech which Demosthenes prepared for the prosecution. It is one of the most famous pieces of ancient oratory, and it is also one of the principal sources of information about the politics of its period.

This volume is on the same lines as Professor MacDowell's previous edition of Demosthenes' speech Against Meidias. It includes an introduction concentrating especially on the historical circumstances, a revised Greek text based on fresh study of the manuscripts, an English translation on pages facing the text, and the first detailed commentary on the speech for over a hundred years.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198153031
ISBN 13 
9780198153030
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
388
Herausgeber
MacDowell Douglas M.
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