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Aeschines | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Badian, E. and Julia Heskel. “Aeschines 2.12–18: A Study in Rhetoric and Chronology.” Phoenix 41, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987): 264–71.

Stress that Aeschines had particular motives for writing his account of the peace with Philip, and warn that historians should not be unduly swayed by his rhetorical skill.

Diller, Aubrey. “The Manuscript Tradition of Aeschines' Orations.” Illinois Classical Studies 4 (1979): 34-64.

Describes many different Aeschines manuscripts, most of which are from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries.

CRITICISM

Cawkwell, G. L. “Aeschines and the Peace of Philocrates.” Revue des Etudes Grecques 73, No. 347-48 (July-December 1960): 416-38.

Explains why Aeschines was forced to change his position regarding a peace decree with Philip.

———. “Aeschines and the Ruin of Phocis in 346.” Revue des Etudes...

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