Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), 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 the
rise of Philip of Macedon 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.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Demosthenes is in seven
volumes.
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