Orations, Volume VI - Orations 50–59: Private Cases. In Neaeram

Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), 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.

About the author

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

Summary

Demosthenes (384–322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness and Greek resistance to Philip of Macedon. His steadfastness, pungent argument, and control of language gained him early reputation as the best of Greek orators, and his works provide vivid pictures of contemporary life.

Product details

• Authors: Demosthenes
• Assisted by: A. T. Murray (Translation), A.T. Murray (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1939
• EAN: 9780674993860
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99386-0
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 162 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]; Demosthenes
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays