Demosthenes the OratorIn 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. |
Contents
1 Speeches and texts | 1 |
2 Demosthenes family and personal life | 14 |
3 Demosthenes inheritance | 30 |
4 Other families | 59 |
5 Apollodoros | 99 |
6 Liturgies and the navy | 127 |
7 Illegal proposals and unsuitable laws | 152 |
8 The young politician | 207 |
11 Citizenship and disfranchisement | 288 |
12 The Peace of Philokrates | 314 |
13 War and defeat | 343 |
14 The case of the crown | 382 |
15 Style | 398 |
16 The letters and the final years | 408 |
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