Orations, Volume VII: Orations 60-61: Funeral Speech. Erotic Essay. Exordia. Letters

by Demosthenes, N. W. De Witt (Translator), N. J. De Witt (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:	9780674994126
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1949
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #374
Edition description:	3rd printing/1st pub.1949/general index
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Table of Contents

Preface

Bibliography

Order Of The Orations According To Blass's Text

LX. The Funeral Speech—

Introduction

Text and Translation

LXI. The Erotic Essay—

Introduction

Text and Translation

Exordia—

Introduction

Text and Translation

Letters—

Introduction

Text and Translation

General Index