Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2012
411 pages
978-0-19-993196-5 (ISBN)
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In Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece Ian Worthington brings the great orator's career vividly to life, offering new insights into Demosthenes' motives and how he shaped his policy to achieve political power.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Demosthenes' Life: The Main Events
- Speech Numbers and Titles
- Quotations and Abbreviations
- ONE: Preamble: "Politicians and Heroes"
- TWO: Demosthenes, Son of Demosthenes
- THREE: Greece and the Awakening of Macedonia
- FOUR: Into the Public Eye
- FIVE: The Aspiring Politician
- SIX: Swaying the Assembly
- SEVEN: An Uneasy Peace
- EIGHT: Resisting Philip
- NINE: "Speeches Like Soldiers"
- TEN: The End of Greek Freedom
- ELEVEN: "For the Conqueror, Death"
- TWELVE: Demosthenes and Alexander the Great
- THIRTEEN: The Crown Trial
- FOURTEEN: Decline and Fall
- FIFTEEN: Poison from the Pen
- Appendix: Ancient Coinage and Months of the Attic Year
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
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