Orations, Volume II: Orations 18–19: De Corona. De Falsa Legatione (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Demosthenes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674991710 ISBN 13: 9780674991712

Verlag: LOEB, 1926

Inhaltsangabe

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.

Demosthenes (384–322 BC), 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 Philip of Macedon’s rise 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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Charles Anthony Vince (1855–1929) was Headmaster of Mill Hill School, UK.

James Herbert Vince (1865–1957) was Assistant Master of Bradfield College, UK.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LOEB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1926
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674991710
• ISBN 13: 9780674991712
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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