Greek Orators V: Demosthenes - On the Crown
Greek Orators V: Demosthenes - On the Crown
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Universally recognised as the greatest speech by the finest of the Attic Orators, On the Crown is Demosthenes' vindication of his lifelong devotion to Athenian primacy among the Greek states and opposition to the advance of Philip II of Macedon. This edition presents the Greek text with facing translation, introduction and a full commentary.
‘Anyone working on the orators will need a copy of this book.’
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
‘The introduction provides an excellent summary. Usher’s great strength is in his notes on rhetoric and arguments; he surpasses all previous commentators.’
Classical Review
Stephen Usher was Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London. He wrote extensively on oratory and is the author of The Historians of Greece and Rome (Hamish Hamilton, 1969), Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Critical Essays (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1974), Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Cicero’s Speeches: The Critic in Action (Aris & Phillips, 2008). He has also edited and translated speeches for Greek Orators I, III and V in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series (volumes I and III co-edited with Mark Edwards).
‘Anyone working on the orators will need a copy of this book.’
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
‘The introduction provides an excellent summary. Usher’s great strength is in his notes on rhetoric and arguments; he surpasses all previous commentators.’
Classical Review
Stephen Usher was Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London. He wrote extensively on oratory and is the author of The Historians of Greece and Rome (Hamish Hamilton, 1969), Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Critical Essays (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1974), Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Cicero’s Speeches: The Critic in Action (Aris & Phillips, 2008). He has also edited and translated speeches for Greek Orators I, III and V in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series (volumes I and III co-edited with Mark Edwards).