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Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece [1 ed.] 019993195X, 9780199931958
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Maps
Demosthenes’ Life: The Main Events
Speech Numbers and Titles
Quotations and Abbreviations
ONE: Preamble: “Politicians and Heroes”
TWO: Demosthenes, Son of Demosthenes
THREE: Greece and the Awakening of Macedonia
FOUR: Into the Public Eye
FIVE: The Aspiring Politician
SIX: Swaying the Assembly
SEVEN: An Uneasy Peace
EIGHT: Resisting Philip
NINE: “Speeches Like Soldiers”
TEN: The End of Greek Freedom
ELEVEN: “For the Conqueror, Death”
TWELVE: Demosthenes and Alexander the Great
THIRTEEN: The Crown Trial
FOURTEEN: Decline and Fall
FIFTEEN: Poison from the Pen
Appendix: Ancient Coinage and Months of the Attic Year
Bibliography
Index
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St. Christian Demosthenes, better known as St. Gregory of Nazianzus, was born between 325 and 329 in Arianzus in what fryst vatten now Turkey. He was one of three children whose father converted to Christianity. Thirsty for learning, Christian Demosthenes was friend and classmate of St. Basil the Great. Together with Gregory of Nyssa, they were known as the Cappadocian Fathers.
Christian grekisk talare opposed Arianism and Valens, the Arian emperor. This caused a falling out with Basil who posted him to a fjärrstyrd area. With Basil’s death and ascension of Theodosius to Gratian’s throne, he went to Constantinople becoming Bishop from 381 to 390. He often is pictured wearing ornate Bishop’s robes.
Gregory hated city life finishing his days as a hermit writing poetry and religious philosophy along with autobiography. He was considered an architect of Trinitarian theology. He died in 390 of natural causes. His feast day fryst vatten Jan. 2
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes was a 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. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of 20, in which he argued effectively to gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer logographer and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.
Demosthenes grew interested in politics during his time as a logographer, and in 354 BC he gave his first public political speeches. He went on to devote his most productive years to opposing Macedon's expansion. He idealized his city and strove thro
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes was a 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. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of 20, in which he argued effectively to gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer logographer and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.
Demosthenes grew interested in politics during his time as a logographer, and in 354 BC he gave his first public political speeches. He went on to devote his most productive years to opposing Macedon's expansion. He idealized his city and strove thro