Demosthenes the Orator
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2009
470 pages
978-0-19-157274-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the most comprehensive account available of the texts of Demosthenes, Douglas M. MacDowell describes and assesses all of the great orator's speeches, including those for the lawcourts as well as the addresses to the Ekklesia. Besides the genuine speeches, MacDowell also covers those which have probably wrongly been ascribed to Demosthenes, such as the ones written for delivery by Apollodorus; and he considers too the Epistles, the Prooemia, and the puzzling Erotic Speech.
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Douglas M. MacDowell is Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Glasgow.
Content
- 1: Speeches and texts
- 2: Demosthenes' family and personal life
- 3: Demosthenes' inheritance
- 4: Other families
- 5: Apollodorus
- 6: Liturgies and the navy
- 7: Illegal proposals and unsuitable laws
- 8: The young politician
- 9: Assault and the rule of law
- 10: Trade and industry
- 11: Citizenship and disfranchisement
- 12: The Peace of Philokrates
- 13: War and defeat
- 14: The case of the crown
- 15: Style
- 16: The letters and the final years
