Demosthenes

Broschiertes Buch

Demosthenes: Selected Speeches

Beschreibung

Demosthenes was one of the greatest of the classic Athenian orators. He wrote for the courts in public and private cases and in major political trials and is a major source for the history of Athens' struggle against Macedon. This is the widest selection of his speeches in a single volume.

Autor

Robin Waterfield was a university lecturer and publisher before becoming a full time writer. His translations for Oxford World's Classics include Plato's Republic and five other editions of Plato's dialogues, Herodotus, Plutarch, two volumes of Euripides' plays, Xenophon's The Expedition of Cyrus and The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists. His other books include Dividing the Spoils: the War for Alexander the Great's Empire (OUP, 2011). He lives in Greece. Chris Carey has previously taught at Cambridge, St Andrews, and Royal Holloway before moving to UCL. He has published widely Greek oratory and law, including Democracy in classical Athens (Bristol Classical Press, 2000) and Trials from classical Athens (Routledge, 2/e 2011).

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780199593774
• ISBN-10: 0199593779
• Artikelnr.: 40127507