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Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines - With Introduction, Text, and Translation (Hardcover, Critical)
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Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines - With Introduction, Text, and Translation (Hardcover, Critical)
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Against Leptines is one of the most important speeches delivered by
Demosthenes. In it he argues against the abolition of all honorific
exemptions (ateleiai) from festival liturgies in Athens. An
important source for Athenian history in the mid-fourth century BC,
the speech broaches a number of issues vital to our understanding
of classical Athenian society, politics, and legislation. The
questions of public honours, Athenian democratic ideology, and the
themes of expediency, justice and injustice, are central to the
speech and have made it popular with audiences ever since the
classical period. Kremmydas' volume is the first detailed
commentary on this speech in any language since the 19th century.
An extensive introduction, which covers key background issues, the
addition of the Greek text (adapted from M. R. Dilts's Oxford
Classical Text of Demosthenes 20), and a facing English translation
make the commentary even more accessible to a wider scholarly
audience. While the important historical and complex legal issues
are given appropriate attention in the commentary section, a
special emphasis is also given to the elucidation of Demosthenes
rhetorical strategy and argumentation.
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