Orations, Volume II: Orations 18-19: de Corona. de Falsa Legatione [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Demosthenes

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.

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 Philip of Macedon's rise 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674991710
• ISBN13: 9780674991712
• Release Date: January 1926
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 6.7"