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Selected Speeches

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By (author): Demosthenes

Translated by: Robin Waterfield

'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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 392g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 08 May 2014
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780199593774

About 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).

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