Volumen V. Private orations. Books XLI - XLIX. (Trad de A. T. Murray)
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780674993815
- ISBN10 0674993810
- Type Book
- Pages 419
- Published 1989
- Bookbinding Cloth
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Bilingual Greek ClassicsVolumen V. Private orations. Books XLI - XLIX. (Trad de A. T. Murray)
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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 the rise of Philip of Macedon 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.