Plato And Demosthenes

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666920061
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato and Demosthenes written by William H. F. Altman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity, it is the eloquent and patriotic orator Demosthenes—not the pro-Macedonian Aristotle who tutored Alexander the Great—who returned to the dangerous Cave of political life, and thus makes it possible to recover the Old Academy. In Plato and Demosthenes: Recovering the Old Academy, William H. F. Altman explores how Demosthenes—along with Phocion, Lycurgus, and Hyperides—add external and historical evidence for the hypothesis that Plato’s brilliant and challenging dialogues constituted the Academy’s original curriculum. Altman rejects the facile view that the eloquent Plato, a master speech-writer as well as the proponent of the transcendent and post-eudaemonist Idea of the Good, was rhetoric’s enemy. He shows how Demosthenes acquired the discipline necessary to become a great orator, first by shouting at the sea and then by summoning the Athenians to self-sacrifice in defense of their waning freedom. Demosthenes thus proved Socrates’ criticism of democracy and the democratic man wrong, just as Plato the Teacher had intended that his best students would, and as he continues to challenge us to do today.

Author : William Jackson Brodribb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demosthenes written by William Jackson Brodribb and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263563
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece written by Ian Worthington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demosthenes (384-322 BC) profoundly shaped one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under Philip II and then Alexander the Great. Demosthenes' courageous defiance of Macedonian imperialism cost him his life but earned him a reputation as one of history's outstanding patriots. He also enjoyed a brilliant and lucrative career as a speechwriter, and his rhetorical skills are still emulated today by statesmen and politicians. Yet he was a sickly child with a challenging speech impediment, who was swindled out of much of his family's estate by unscrupulous guardians. His story is therefore one of triumph over adversity.

Author : Henry William Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Prose Phrase-book written by Henry William Auden and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Léon Brédif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Eloquence in Greece written by Léon Brédif and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Demosthenes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674992634
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Demosthenes written by Demosthenes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danielle S. Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444334484
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Plato Wrote written by Danielle S. Allen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world’s first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world’s first think-tank activist and message man. Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics Offers accessible discussions of Plato’s philosophy of language and political theory Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292783035
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59 written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity; indeed, his very eminence may be responsible for the inclusion under his name of a number of speeches he almost certainly did not write. This volume contains four speeches that are most probably the work of Apollodorus, who is often known as "the Eleventh Attic Orator." Regardless of their authorship, however, this set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens. They tell of the friendships and quarrels of rural neighbors, of young men joined in raucous, intentionally shocking behavior, of families enduring great poverty, and of the intricate involvement of prostitutes in the lives of citizens. They also deal with the outfitting of warships, the grain trade, challenges to citizenship, and restrictions on the civic role of men in debt to the state.

Author : Werner Jaeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demosthenes written by Werner Jaeger and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Demosthenes (384-322 BC) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC."--Wikipedia.

Author : Henry William Auden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365235132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Prose Phrase-Book written by Henry William Auden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Prose Phrase-Book: Based on Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato Tms book owes its origin chiefly to the numerous letters I have received since publishing the English translation of Meissner's 'latin phrase-book, ' suggesting the advie ability of a similar compilation for Greek prose. It is similar to Meissner, but with the difference that it is not so elaborate and does not profess to contain every thing, its object being rather to stimulate a boy's own activity and suggest that he should add more phrases from his own reading, - it is for this purpose that the book has been interleaved. Boys ought to do something for themselves towards scholarship. They nowadays ex pect to have everything done for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.