Orations, Volume II: Orations 18-19: De Corona. De Falsa Legatione

by Demosthenes, J. H. Vince, C. A. Vince

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674991712
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1926
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #155
Edition description:	7th printing/1st pub.1926/index
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

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

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

Table of Contents

XVIII. De Corona

Introduction

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XIX. De Falsa Legatione

Introduction

Text

Index Of Names

Order Of The Orations