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Greek Orators VII: Demosthenes 8: On the Chersonese

Greek Orators VII: Demosthenes 8: On the Chersonese

Demosthenes
Clarke, Stephen
Clarke, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Miscellaneous LanguagesLiterary CriticismAncient Greece

ISBN10: 1789628156
ISBN13: 9781789628159
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jun 8 2021
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Demosthenes' oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political orator, coming as one of his final surviving speeches in the corpus. It was delivered to the Athenians in 341 BC, at a time of turbulent events when Athens was coming under increasing pressure resulting from the actions of Philip of Macedon. The Chersonese was a region of great importance for Athens. At the time of the speech, Philip was in the middle of an extensive military and diplomatic campaign in Thrace that would threaten the security of the Athenian grain trade from the Black Sea. The resulting pressure in the Chersonese, however, was seen by Demosthenes as an attempt by Philip to weaken Athens as a prelude to taking the whole of Greece. In this context he argued in the speech that the general Diopeithes, who had been sent out to the Chersonese in 346 with a naval force, be supported in the face of protest from Philip regarding Diopeithes' actions in the wider area. He focuses on Athenian relations with Philip in this crucial northern region and why Philip was a threat to Athenian interests in the area.

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