Demosthenes

This is part three of a four-unit prose reading course designed for beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage (both in Greek and English), word order and the use of particles and particle-combinations. Practical guidance is given on mastering the verbal systems and other features of the language...

Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), an orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became a statesman, championing the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We possess by him political speeches and law-court speeches composed for parties in private cases and political cases. His early...