Greek Orators VII Clarke Clarke Paperback Liverpool University Press

Greek Orators VII: Demosthenes 8: On the Chersonese\nby Demosthenes\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Demosthenes\nTitle: Greek Orators VII: Demosthenes 8: On the Chersonese\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient, classical and medieval texts\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781789628159\nISBN-10: 1789628156\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDemosthenes\u2019 oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political orator, coming as one of his final surviving speeches in the corpus. It was delivered to the Athenians in 341 BC, at a time of turbulent events when Athens was coming under increasing pressure resulting from the actions of Philip of Macedon. The C.