demosthenes in English
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1. Another nickname of Demosthenes was "Argas."
2. Aeschines definition, Athenian orator: rival of Demosthenes
3. Polysyndeton and Asyndeton in Demosthenes "There is an example of both these figures [polysyndeton and Asyndeton] in a passage of Demosthenes
4. Demosthenes was orphaned at the age of seven.
5. 11 But Aischines expressly excludes that explanation for Demosthenes.
6. The resulting oratorical confrontation between Aeschines and Demosthenes aroused interest throughout Greece, because not only Demosthenes but also Athenian policy of the past 20 years was on trial
7. Demosthenes dealt in policies and ideas, and war was not his business.
8. These developments worried Philip and increased his anger at Demosthenes.
9. Demosthenes decided to prosecute his wealthy opponent and wrote the judicial oration Against Meidias.
10. And then they'd listen to Demosthenes, and they'd say, "Let's march."
11. In response, Demosthenes delivered the Second Philippic, a vehement attack against Philip.
12. Demosthenes celebrated Philip's assassination and played a leading part in his city's uprising.
13. Demosthenes delivered On the Chersonese and convinced the Athenians not to recall Diopeithes.
14. Aeschines ĕ´skĭnēz , c.390–314? BC, Athenian orator, rival of Demosthenes
15. 3) In his speeches, Aeschines uses pederastic relations of Demosthenes as a means to attack him
16. Take Demosthenes, a political leader and the greatest orator and lawyer in ancient Greece.
17. It seems that Aeschines is finally emerging from the shadow of his more famous adversary, Demosthenes
18. Demosthenes wrote that Athens imported about 400,000 medimns (63,000 tons) of grain annually from the Bosporus.
19. The other two speeches were delivered in the context of Aeschines’ long-running political feud with Demosthenes
20. It has also been said that Demosthenes paid Isaeus 10,000 drachmae (somewhat over 1.5 talents) on the condition that Isaeus should withdraw from a school of rhetoric which he had opened, and should devote himself wholly to Demosthenes, his new pupil.
21. Tsatsos and the philologist Henri Weil believe that there is no indication that Demosthenes was a pupil of Plato or Isocrates.
22. An Athenian orator and statesman, Aeschines was the great rival of Demosthenes, being later ranked as one of the ten Attic orators
23. Demosthenes escaped to a sanctuary on the island of Kalaureia (modern-day Poros), where he was later discovered by Archias, a confidant of Antipater.
24. Demosthenes was admitted to his deme as a citizen with full rights probably in 366 BC, and he soon demonstrated an interest in politics.
25. Longinus likened Demosthenes to a blazing thunderbolt, and argued that he "perfected to the utmost the tone of lofty speech, living passions, copiousness, readiness, speed".
26. In the case of Aristion, a youth from Plataea who lived for a long time in Demosthenes' house, Aeschines mocks the "scandalous" and "improper" relation.
27. As Arrian lived in the second century of the present era, and nearly five hundred years after Demosthenes, it is not to be expected that he wrote classical Greek
28. As Arrian lived in the second century of the present era, and nearly five hundred years after Demosthenes, it is not to be expected that he wrote classical Greek
29. According to Jacqueline de Romilly, a French philologist and member of the Académie française, the threat of Philip would give Demosthenes' stances a focus and a raison d'être (reason for existence).
30. As a group, the speeches provide important information on Athenian law and politics, the political careers of Aeschines and Demosthenes, sexuality and social history, and the historical rivalry between Athens and Macedonia.
31. In what Cawkwell describes as his proudest moment, Demosthenes alone counseled against despair, and proposed that the Athenians should seek an alliance with the Thebans; his decree was passed, and he was sent as ambassador.
32. There’s a famous saying, “When Aeschines spoke, his countrymen said, “How well he speaks.” But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, “Let us march against Phillip.”” In other words, the best marketing doing look or feel like marketing
33. In another oration of Demosthenes we discover glimpses of what by many has been deemed maritime insurance, or rather of the fraud at present called Barratry, which is practised to defraud the insurer: but, as Park in his learned Treatise on Marine
34. Athenian: 1 n a resident of Athens Examples: show 4 examples hide 4 examples Alcibiades ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC) Demosthenes Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC) Draco Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC)