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Selected Speeches (Paperback)
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Selected Speeches (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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List price R368
Loot Price R319
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'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.
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