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On the False Embassy (Oration 19): Edited with Introduction and Commentary

On the False Embassy (Oration 19): Edited with Introduction and Commentary

Demosthenes
MacDowell, Douglas M.
MacDowell, Douglas M.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismLinguisticsAncient Greece

ISBN10: 0198153031
ISBN13: 9780198153030
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 22 2001
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In 346 BC. the Athenians negotiated a peace treaty with King Philip II of Macedon, but afterwards one of the Athenian ambassadors, Demosthenes, accused another, Aiskhines, of accepting a bribe from Philip to contrive that the terms of the treaty should be favourable to him. The case came to trial three years later, and On the False Embassy is the speech which Demosthenes prepared for the prosecution. It is one of the most famous pieces of ancient oratory, and it is also one of the principal sources of information about the politics of its period.

This volume is on the same lines as Professor MacDowell's previous edition of Demosthenes' speech Against Meidias. It includes an introduction concentrating especially on the historical circumstances, a revised Greek text based on fresh study of the manuscripts, an English translation on pages facing the text, and the first detailed commentary on the speech for over a hundred years.

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