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Diogenes searching for a Man, to G. B. Castiglione (c. 1645 - 1655), in the Prado Museum The stories told of Diogenes illustrate the logical consistency of his character. He inured himself to the weather by living in a clay wine jar [ 5 ] [ 19 ] belonging to the temple of Cybele . [ 20 ]
Demosthenes Practising Oratory by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy (1842–1923). Demosthenes used to study in an underground room he constructed himself. He also used to talk with pebbles in his mouth and recited verses while running. [30] To strengthen his voice, he spoke on the seashore over the roar of the waves.
This man was identified by Demosthenes as “an honest, useful, and popular politician, and one of the men who marched from Peiraeus and restored the democracy”. [3] This was in 403 BCE when Athens was under the rule of the Thirty Tyrants.
The Logoi, the famous speeches by Demosthenes, in a 1570 edition, in Greek surrounded by Greek commentary, amongst other works of the period. Demosthenes (Greek: Δημοσθένης; 384–322 BC) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens.
Demosthenes and Hippocrates were unable to coordinate their attacks and Hippocrates was defeated at the Battle of Delium. Demosthenes instead attacked Sicyon and was defeated as well. Demosthenes was one of the signatories of the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC, which ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War. (A different Demosthenes was also a ...
On the Liberty of the Rhodians" (Ancient Greek: Ὑπὲρ τῆς Ροδίων ἐλευθερίας) is one of the first political orations of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes. It is generally dated to 351/0 BC, shortly after the First Philippic, and constitutes one of the initial political interventions of Demosthenes. [1]
Demosthenes, De Corona 167–169.P. Oxy. 1377, 1st century BCE "On the Crown" (Ancient Greek: Ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου, Hyper Ktēsiphōntos peri tou Stephanou) is the most famous judicial oration of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes, delivered in 330 BC.
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.