Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bers, Victor,; Gagarin, Michael,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bers, Victor.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Oratory of Classical Greece
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 p.)

This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity; indeed, his very eminence may be responsible for the inclusion under his name of a number of speeches he almost certainly did not write. This volume contains four speeches that are most probably the work of Apollodorus, who is often known as "the Eleventh Attic Orator." Regardless of their authorship, however, this set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens. They tell of the friendships and quarrels of rural neighbors, of young men joined in raucous, intentionally shocking behavior, of families enduring great poverty, and of the intricate involvement of prostitutes in the lives of citizens. They also deal with the outfitting of warships, the grain trade, challenges to citizenship, and restrictions on the civic role of men in debt to the state.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE -- TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE -- SERIES INTRODUCTION Greek Oratory -- INTRODUCTION TO DEMOSTHENES -- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME -- DEMOSTHENES, SPEECHES 50 –59 -- 50. AGAINST POLYCLES IN THE MATTER OF A PERIOD OF SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE AS TRIERARCH -- 51. ON THE TRIERARCHIC CROWN -- 52. AGAINST CALLIPPUS -- 53. AGAINST NICOSTRATUS -- 54. AGAINST CONON -- 55. AGAINST CALLICLES FOR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY -- 56. AGAINST DIONYSODORUS FOR DAMAGES -- 57. APPEAL AGAINST EUBULIDES -- 58. AGAINST THEOCRINES -- 59. AGAINST NEAERA -- INDEX