Minor Attic Orators . Volume II, Lycurgus. Dinarchus. Demades. Hyperides / / edited by John Ormiston Burtt

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1954
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (640 pages)
• Disciplina: 346.0
• Soggetto topico: Domestic relations courts
• Persona (resp. second.): BurttJohn Ormiston
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface Introduction Lycurgus Life of Lycurgus Against Leocrates Introduction Analysis Text and Translation Fragments Introduction Text and Translation Dinarchus Life of Dinarchus I. Against Demosthenes Introduction Analysis Text and Translation II. Against Aristogiton Introduction Analysis Text and Translation III. Against Philocles Introduction Analysis Text and Translation Fragments Introduction Text and Translation Demandes Life of Demandes On the Twelve Years Introduction Analysis Text and Translation Hyperides Life of Hyperides Note on the Text I. In Defence of Lycophron Introduction Analysis Text and Translation Appendix: Second Speech in Defence of Lycophron Introduction Text and Translation II. Against Philippides Introduction Analysis Text and Translation III. Against Athenogenes Introduction Analysis Text and Translation IV. In Defence of Euxenippus Introduction Analysis Text and Translation V. Against Demosthenes Introduction Analysis Text and Translation VI. Funeral Speech Introduction Analysis Text and Translation Fragments Introduction Text and Translation Index of Proper Names Index of Selected Greek Words for Volumes I and II.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume collects the speeches of four orators involved in the ill-fated resistance of Athens to the power of Philip and Alexander the Great of Macedon. Lycurgus of Athens, ca. 396-325 BCE, concentrated on domestic affairs, especially financial, which he managed for twelve years, and naval matters. He also constructed and repaired important public buildings. Athens refused to surrender him to Alexander and honoured him until his death. Dinarchus of Corinth, ca. 361-291, as resident alien in Athens became a forensic speaker and also assailed Demosthenes and others. He was accused by Alexander's runaway treasurer Harpalus of corruption. Dinarchus favoured oligarchic government under Macedonian control. He prospered under the regency of Demetrius Phalereus (317-307), but was exiled after the restoration of democracy, returning ca. 292. Demades of Athens, ca. 380-318, was an able seaman, then unscrupulous politician. He favoured Philip, but fought for Athens at Chaeronea (338). Captured there and released by Philip, he helped to make peace, and later influenced Alexander and then Antipater in Athens' favour. But acceptance of bribes and his tortuous policy ruined him and he was executed by Antipater. Hyperides of Athens, ca. 390-322, was a forensic and political speaker who was hostile to Philip and led Athens' patriots after 325. For resistance to Antipater he ultimately met death by violence. What survives today of his speeches was discovered in the nineteenth century. This is the second in a two-volume edition of Greek orators. The first collects the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides.
• Altri titoli varianti: Minor Attic Orators, Volume II
• Titolo autorizzato: Minor attic orators
• ISBN: 0-674-99434-5; 9780674994348
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996199054003316
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