ORATIONS VOLUME II

DEMOSTHENES,

ISBN 10: 0674991710 / ISBN 13: 9780674991712

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1926

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N° de réf. du vendeur NW9780674991712

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• Titre: ORATIONS VOLUME II
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 1926
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674991710
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674991712
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: NEW

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Synopsis

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

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