Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Demosthenes, author.
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| Edition: | Partially rev.
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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| Description: | 1 online resource
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| Language: | English
Ancient Greek |
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| Series: | Loeb Classical Library ; 155, 238, 299, 318, 346, 351, 374
Loeb Classical Library ; 155, 238, 299, 318, 346, 351, 374.
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| Format: | E-Resource
Book
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10301272 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | De Witt, Norman Johnston, translator.
De Witt, Norman W. (Norman Wentworth), 1876-1958, translator.
Murray, A. T. (Augustus Taber), 1866-1940, translator.
Vince, C. A. (Charles Anthony), 1855- translator.
Vince, J. H. (James Herbert), 1865- translator.
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| ISBN: | 9780674992634
9780674991712
9780674993303
9780674993518
9780674993815
9780674993860
9780674994126
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a champion of Athenian greatness and Greek resistance to Philip of Macedon. His steadfastness, pungent argument, and severe control of language gained him early reputation as the best of Greek orators, and his works provide vivid pictures of contemporary life. 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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| Other form: | Print version: Demosthenes. Orations. Partially rev. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1930 9780674992634(v.1) 9780674991712(v.2) 9780674993303(v.3) 9780674993518(v.4) 9780674993815(v.5) 9780674993860(v.6) 9780674994126(v.7)
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