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41On the Crown — (Greek: Ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου) is the most famous judicial oration of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes, delivered in 330 BC. Contents 1 Historical background 2 Content of the speech 3 …
42On the Navy — (Ancient Greek: Περὶ τῶν Συμμοριῶν) is the first political oration of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes. It was delivered in 354 BC and constitutes one of the initial political interventions of Demosthenes. On the Navy is a… …
43Demosthenes' Funeral Oration — (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Λόγος) was delivered between August and September of 338 BC, just after the Battle of Chaeronea. It constitutes along with the Erotic Essay the two epideictic orations of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator, which are… …
44On the Peace — (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… …
45On the Halonnesus — ( Greek: Περὶ τῆς Ἀλοννήσου) is a political oration attributed to the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes. The speech constitutes an Athenian response to a letter of Philip II of Macedon, with which the King of Macedon proposed… …
46Demosthenes — /di mos theuh neez /, n. 384? 322 B.C., Athenian statesman and orator. * * * born 384 BC, Athens died Oct. 12, 322, Calauria, Argolis Athenian statesman known as the greatest orator of ancient Greece. According to Plutarch, he was a stutterer in… …
47tirade — tirade, *diatribe, jeremiad, philippic can all mean a violent, often long winded, and usually denunciatory speech or writing. Tirade implies a swift emission of heated language, sometimes critical, sometimes abusive, but usually long continued… …
48Euphraeus — (Greek: Ευφραιος; fl. ca. Fourth Century BCE; d. ca. 342 BCE/341 BCE) was a philosopher and student of Plato from the town of Oreus in northern Euboea. He appears to have been active in politics in addition to his speculative studies, being first …
49Fifth Letter (Plato) — The Fifth Letter of Plato , also called Epistle V or Letter V , is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It falls among those Epistles of Plato that have nothing to do with Sicilian politics and the intrigues between Dion and his… …
50History of ancient Tunisia — The present day Republic of Tunisia, al Jumhuriyyah at Tunisiyyah , has over ten million citizens, almost all of Arab Berber descent. The Mediterranean Sea is to the north and east, Libya to the southeast, and Algeria to the west. Tunis is the… …
