{"product_id":"orations-volume-ii-1","title":"Orations, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe preeminent orator of ancient Athens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemosthenes  (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 rests on his steadfastness of  purpose, his sincerity, his clear and pungent argument, and his severe  control of language. In his law cases he is the advocate, in his  political speeches a castigator not of his opponents but of their  politics. Demosthenes gives us vivid pictures of public and private life  of his time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Demosthenes is in seven volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241627111768,"sku":"9780674991712","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674991712.jpg?v=1780398952","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/orations-volume-ii-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}