The Philippics (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Demosthenes
- First Published: 1852
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Politics, War, Politicians, Democracy, Speeches, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Tyrants or tyranny
Critical Evaluation:
Occasionally in history, genius and a crisis in human affairs unite to produce one whose name rings down through the ages long after the particular events that produced the person have faded into the dimness of antiquity. Such a man was Demosthenes. Almost every educated person has heard of him and knows that he was a famous Greek orator. The events and the crisis in ancient Greece that helped make him famous, however, are unknown except to students of ancient history.
As an Athenian lawyer and orator, Demosthenes might have won little fame had it...
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