Demosthenes

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190263560

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Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington Pdf

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) profoundly shaped one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under Philip II and then Alexander the Great. Demosthenes' courageous defiance of Macedonian imperialism cost him his life but earned him a reputation as one of history's outstanding patriots. He also enjoyed a brilliant and lucrative career as a speechwriter, and his rhetorical skills are still emulated today by statesmen and politicians. Yet he was a sickly child with a challenging speech impediment, who was swindled out of much of his family's estate by unscrupulous guardians. His story is therefore one of triumph over adversity.

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134628919

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Demosthenes by Ian Worthington Pdf

Demosthenes is often adjudged the statesman par excellence, and his oratory as some of the finest to survive from classical times. Contemporary politicians still quote him in their speeches and for some he is the supreme example of a patriot. This landmark study of this remarkable man and his long career, the first to focus on him for more than 80 years, looks at the background behind this reputation and asks whether it is truly deserved.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292783034

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Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59 by Anonim Pdf

This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity; indeed, his very eminence may be responsible for the inclusion under his name of a number of speeches he almost certainly did not write. This volume contains four speeches that are most probably the work of Apollodorus, who is often known as "the Eleventh Attic Orator." Regardless of their authorship, however, this set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens. They tell of the friendships and quarrels of rural neighbors, of young men joined in raucous, intentionally shocking behavior, of families enduring great poverty, and of the intricate involvement of prostitutes in the lives of citizens. They also deal with the outfitting of warships, the grain trade, challenges to citizenship, and restrictions on the civic role of men in debt to the state.

Author : Irene Berti,Katharina Bolle,Fanny Opdenhoff,Fabian Stroth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110533361

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Writing Matters by Irene Berti,Katharina Bolle,Fanny Opdenhoff,Fabian Stroth Pdf

This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spaces, Hellenistic and Roman cities, and medieval buildings.

Author : Demosthenes.
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292794139

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Demosthenes, Speeches 20-22 by Demosthenes. Pdf

This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity. This volume contains three important speeches from the earliest years of his political career: Against Leptines, a prosecution brought against a law repealing all exemptions from liturgies; Against Meidias, a prosecution for aggravated insult (hybris) brought against an influential politician; and Against Androtion, an indictment of a decree of honors for the Council of Athens. Edward M. Harris provides contemporary English translations of these speeches, two of which (Leptines and Androtion) have not been translated into English in over sixty years, along with introductions and extensive notes that take account of recent developments in Classical scholarship.

Author : Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521276721

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Art in the Hellenistic Age by Jerome Jordan Pollitt Pdf

This 1986 book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period.

Author : Didymus (Chalcenterus.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198150435

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Didymos on Demosthenes by Didymus (Chalcenterus.) Pdf

This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed commentary that considers all issues related to the restoration of the text and to its historical content. All Greek is translated into English so that the discussion is fully accessible. In addition, throughout the introduction and commentary an attempt is made to arrive at a balanced appraisal of Didymos' position in the history of scholarship.

Author : Douglas M. MacDowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199287192

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Demosthenes the Orator by Douglas M. MacDowell Pdf

In the most comprehensive account available of the texts of Demosthenes, Douglas M. MacDowell describes and assesses all of the great orator's speeches, including those for the lawcourts as well as the addresses to the Ekklesia. Besides the genuine speeches, MacDowell also covers those which have probably wrongly been ascribed to Demosthenes, such as the ones written for delivery by Apollodorus; and he considers too the Epistles, the Prooemia, and the puzzling Erotic Speech.

Author : Demosthenes,Jeremy Trevett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780292729094

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Demosthenes, Speeches 1–17 by Demosthenes,Jeremy Trevett Pdf

This is the fourteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains translations of all the surviving deliberative speeches of Demosthenes (plus two that are almost certainly not his, although they have been passed down as part of his corpus), as well as the text of a letter from Philip of Macedon to the Athenians. All of the speeches were purportedly written to be delivered to the Athenian assembly and are in fact almost the only examples in Attic oratory of the genre of deliberative oratory. In the Olynthiac and Philippic speeches, Demosthenes identifies the Macedonian king Philip as a major threat to Athens and urges direct action against him. The Philippic speeches later inspired the Roman orator Cicero in his own attacks against Mark Antony, and became one of Demosthenes' claims to fame throughout history.

Author : James Fredal
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0809325942

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Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens by James Fredal Pdf

Twenty-eight illustrations are included."--Jacket.

Author : Raphael Sealey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195359961

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Demosthenes and His Time by Raphael Sealey Pdf

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to study the history of Athens from 386 to 322 B.C. Taking a sympathetic view of the Second Athenian League, Sealey focuses on the career of Demosthenes to provide important insights into Athenian politics and policies. Demosthenes experienced repeated setbacks in his early attempts at public activity, but found his mission as a statesman in the conflict with Macedon and subsequently became the leading man in Athens. Sealey rejects theories that assume programmatic divisions among Athenian statesmen into pro- and anti-Macedonians, and argues that all Athenians active in politics resented Macedonian ascendancy but recognized the necessity of accommodation to superior power. His account concludes with the defeat of Athens and its allies and the suicide of Demosthenes, presenting new insights not only into the life of Demosthenes and the turbulent years of his political career, but also the social and international factors bearing on Athenian political activity in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292779310

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Demosthenes, Speeches 20-22 by Anonim Pdf

This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity. This volume contains three important speeches from the earliest years of his political career: Against Leptines, a prosecution brought against a law repealing all exemptions from liturgies; Against Meidias, a prosecution for aggravated insult (hybris) brought against an influential politician; and Against Androtion, an indictment of a decree of honors for the Council of Athens. Edward M. Harris provides contemporary English translations of these speeches, two of which (Leptines and Androtion) have not been translated into English in over sixty years, along with introductions and extensive notes that take account of recent developments in Classical scholarship.

Author : Demosthenes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
ISBN : CHI:56397949

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The Orations of Demosthenes by Demosthenes Pdf

Author : Demosthenes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600093266

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Midias, with notes by Demosthenes Pdf

Author : Demosthenes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000567208

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The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown by Demosthenes Pdf