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According to H. Yunis in 343 Demosthenes narrowly failed to defeat Aeschines, but he attained his political objective nonetheless. Thirteen years later, in 330, Demosthenes' victory would be overwhelming (On the Crown). According to the same scholar, "on these occasions Demosthenes generated a war of words so intense and absolute that his two ...
In 344 BC, Demosthenes barnstormed Peloponnese, [1] ... Text of the speech at the Perseus Digital Library This page was last edited on 6 March 2024, at ...
On the Peace" (Ancient Greek: Περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης) is one of the most famous political orations of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes. It was delivered in 346 BC and constitutes a political intervention of Demosthenes in favor of the Peace of Philocrates .
Demosthenes is regarded as the most effective of the Greek orators, [8] with the Third Philippic being considered the best of Demosthenes' political orations, [9] because of its passionate and evocative style. [10] The opening sequence to the Third Philippic shows Demosthenes to be a virtuoso of the art of oration. [11]
Against Timocrates" was a speech given by Demosthenes in Athens in which he accused Timocrates of proposing an illegal decree. [1] The speech provides our best evidence about the use of imprisonment as a punishment in Classical Athens.
With this speech Demosthenes exhorted, and finally convinced, his compatriots to support Diopeithes, although the general had previously committed certain injustices and was in exile. Demosthenes' only concern in this speech is to focus on Philip's wrongs towards Athens.
Demosthenes, De Corona 167–169.P. Oxy. 1377, 1st century BCE Demosthenes must have written down and put into circulation most of his orations. [3] In the next generation after his death, texts of his speeches survived in at least two places: Athens and the Library of Alexandria (early-mid third century BC).
Perseus has nowadays branched into other projects: the Scaife Viewer, which is the first phase of the work towards Perseus 5.0, [11] the Perseus Catalog, [1] [12] [13] which provides links to the digital editions not hosted by the Perseus Library, the Perseids Project, [1] which aims to support access to Classics scholarship by providing tools ...