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Demosthenes (First Olynthiac, 20)—The orator took great pains to convince his countrymen that the reform of the theoric fund was necessary to finance the city's military preparations. From this moment until 341 BC, all of Demosthenes' speeches referred to the same issue, the struggle against Philip.
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' speeches were incorporated into the body of classical Greek literature that was preserved, catalogued and studied by scholars of the Hellenistic period. From then until the fourth century AD copies of his orations multiplied at a time when Demosthenes was deemed the most important writer in the rhetorical world and every serious ...
Against Spudias" (Ancient Greek: Πρὸς Σπουδίαν ὑπὲρ Προικός) was an oration composed by Demosthenes which concerned the division of the estate of Polyeuctes. [1] It is the forty-first in the corpus of Demosthenic speeches which have been preserved. Modern commentators have sometimes considered that this was one of ...
He was also a member of the Imperial Archaeological Institute of Germany, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and was a knight of the Greek Order of the Saviour. [3] [4] He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1893. [5]
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]