Orations, Volume V: Orations 41-49: Private Cases

by Murray A. T., Murray A. T. (Translator), Demosthenes, A. T. Murray (Translator)

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:	9780674993815
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1939
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #346
Edition description:	4th printing/1st pub.1939
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Bibliography

Table Of Athenian Money

An Unknown Pleader Against Spudias In The Matter Of A Marriage Portion

Introduction

Text and Translation

Unknown Pleader Against Phaenippus, On An Exchange Of Properties

Introduction

Text and Translation

Sositheus Against Macartatus In Regard To The Estate Of Hagnias

Introduction

Text and Translation

Aristodemus Against Leochares Regarding The Estate Of Archiades

Introduction

Text and Translation

Apollodorus Against Stephanus, Charged With False Testimony

I. Introduction

Text and Translation

II. Introduction

Text and Translation

Unknown Pleader Against Evergus And Mnesibulus, About False Testimony

Introduction

Text and Translation

Callistratus Against Olympiodorus, An Action For Damages

Introduction

Text and Translation

Apollodorus Against Timotheus In The Matter Of A Debt

Introduction

Text and Translation