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Demosthenes'speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes'lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it as the greatest speech ever written. In addition to a clear and accessible translation, Demosthenes'“On the Crown”:Rhetorical Perspectives includes eight essays that provide a thorough analysis—based on Aristotelian principles—of Demosthenes'superb rhetoric. The volume includes biographical and historical background on Demosthenes and his political situation; a structural analysis of On the Crown; and an abstract of Aeschines'speech Against Ctesiphon to which Demosthenes was responding. Four essays by contributors analyze Demosthenes'speech using key elements of rhetoric defined by Aristotle: ēthos, the speaker's character or authority; pathos, or emotional appeals; logos, or logical appeals; and lexis, a speaker's style. An introduction and an epilogue by Murphy frame the speech and the rhetorical analysis of it. By bringing together contextual material about Demosthenes and his speech with a

Author

Lois Peters Agnew; David Mirhady; Richard A Katula; Jeffrey Walker; Richard Leo Enos; James J Murphy

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809335107

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Literary Fiction