Selected Speeches
(Sprache: Englisch)
The only single-volume edition of Demosthenes, the greatest of the Athenian orators, in a new translation accompanied by an invaluable introduction and notes.
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The only single-volume edition of Demosthenes, the greatest of the Athenian orators, in a new translation accompanied by an invaluable introduction and notes.
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'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.'Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as showing a master orator at work, his speeches are a prime source for the history of the period, when Athens was engaged in a doomed struggle against the rising power of Macedon under the brilliant father and son, Philip and Alexander. Demosthenes wrote for the courts, both for political trials in which he was involved and for other cases in which he acted as ghost-writer for plaintiff or defendant, and his lawcourt speeches give an unrivalled glimpse of the daily life of ancient Athens. He also played a central role in education in Greece and Rome from the Hellenistic period onward, and was imitated by the greatest of Roman orators, Cicero.
This selection includes the fullest range of Demosthenes' speeches, for trials both public and private and for the assembly, in a single volume.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Selected Speeches “
- Introduction
- Translator's Note
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology
- Deliberative Speeches
- 1. First Olynthiac
- 2. Second Olynthiac
- 3. Third Olynthiac
- 4. First Philippic
- 5. On the Peace
- 8. On the situation in the Chersonese
- 9. Third Philippic
- Trials in Public Cases
- 18. On the Crown
- 19. A Case of Ambassadorial Misconduct
- 21. Against Meidias, on the Punch
- 23. Against Aristocrates
- 59. Apollodorus, Against Neaera
- Private and Ghost-written Speeches
- 27. First Speech against Aphobus, on Trusteeship
- 28. Second Speech against Aphobus, on Trusteeship
- 35. Against Lacritus
- 36. For Phormion, a Counter-Plea
- 39. First Speech against Boeotus, on the Name
- 54. Against Conon
- 55. Against Callicles
- Explanatory Notes
- Textual Notes
- Glossary
- Index of Proper Names
Autoren-Porträt von Demosthenes
Robin Waterfield was a university lecturer and publisher before becoming a full time writer. His translations for Oxford World's Classics include Plato's Republic and five other editions of Plato's dialogues, Herodotus, Plutarch, two volumes of Euripides' plays, Xenophon's The Expedition of Cyrus and The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists. His other books include Dividing the Spoils: the War for Alexander the Great's Empire (OUP, 2011). He lives in Greece.Chris Carey has previously taught at Cambridge, St Andrews, and Royal Holloway before moving to UCL. He has published widely Greek oratory and law, including Democracy in classical Athens (Bristol Classical Press, 2000) and Trials from classical Athens (Routledge, 2/e 2011).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Demosthenes
- 2014, 576 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Robin Waterfield
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199593779
- ISBN-13: 9780199593774
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.04.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
[Demosthenes' speeches] impress with their emotional intensity, brilliance and variety of argument (dishonest or not), irony, forceful imagery, wit and general sense of mastery of the spoken word, in Robin Waterfields fine new translations. Peter Jones, Classics for All
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