Demosthenes Private Orations - Couverture rigide

Demosthenes

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674993810 ISBN 13 : 9780674993815

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1939

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Augustus Taber Murray (1866-1940) was Professor of Greek at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1939
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674993810
• ISBN 13: 9780674993815
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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