Demosthenes: On the Crown (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) - Softcover

Demosthenes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521629306 ISBN 13: 9780521629300

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This volume presents a newly edited Greek text of one of the masterpieces of ancient Greek prose, a speech delivered by the orator Demosthenes before a court in Athens in 330 BCE. The book contains an introductory essay outlining the historical situation that gave rise to the speech, the nature of Demosthenes' rhetorical art, and the history of the text. The greater part of the book consists of a commentary that elucidates the text and makes clear how Demosthenes achieved his objectives.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Usher formerly Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London has written extensively on oratory and is also the author of The Historians of Greece and Rome and Dionysius of Halicarnassus Critical Essays. He is also the author of Greek Orators volume I (with M. Edwards) in this series.

Language Notes:

Text: Greek, English

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521629306
• ISBN 13: 9780521629300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Yunis Harvey