Demosthenes' speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.
Like all of Waterfield's many translations, the English style is good. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. The translation you use matters greatly and Waterfield's is always either the best translation or among the best translations (e.g., I prefer Cornford to Waterfield for Plato but both are excellent.)
Expression index: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200, More. Find books The Assembly or Ecclesia (Ekklēsia), a legislative body composed of all adult male Athenian citizens, had convened to consider a rumoured threat against Athens by the King of Persia. Buy [(Selected Speeches)] [ By (author) Demosthenes, Translated by Robin Waterfield ] [July, 2014] by Demosthenes (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. See the original text in Perseus Digital Library. Demosthenes was already 30 when, in 354, he made his first major speech before the Assembly. This volume contains translations of all the surviving deliberative speeches of Demosthenes, including several whose authenticity has been questioned (Dem. Despite the fact that nobody listened to him about Philip, I think that it shows the practice of opposition, especially in a democratic society such as ancient Greece.
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For the famous speech on the Crown, I have made occasional use of a translation recently published by an eminent English lawyer, the Right Hon. Translation of Select Speeches of Demosthenes | Demosthenes | ISBN: 9781150991653 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes' lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it as the greatest speech ever written. Speeches 23–26 | Demosthenes; Edward M. Harris (trans.)
Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXX William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 113 William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 117
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com. I really love how he persuades the crowd by addressing to national pride and a sense of loyalty to freed 12). 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 is a translation by Robin Waterfield of a selection of Demosthenes' extant speeches.
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