Demosthenes Private Orations: Orations 50–59: Private Cases. In Neaeram: Volume VI - Rilegato

Demosthenes

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ISBN 10: 0674993861 ISBN 13: 9780674993860

Casa editrice: Loeb Classical Library, 1939

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Loeb Classical Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 1939
• ISBN 10: 0674993861
• ISBN 13: 9780674993860
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 463