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

Name: Orations, Volume V : Orations 41-49: Private Cases
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Orations, Volume VOrations 4149: Private Cases\nAuthor(s): Demosthenes, Augustus Taber Murray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674993815, 978-0674993815\nSynopsis\nThe preeminent orator of ancient Athens.\n\nDemosthenes [tel] 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 Macedons 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.