Demosthenes

Name:

Demosthenes (384-322 BC)

Biographical Details:

Athenian orator; OCD 456-8.

Further Information:

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. He strove throughout his life to restore Athens's supremacy and motivate his compatriots against Philip II of Macedon.

Categorisation:

Century: unknown century

Works:

• author
  1. tib00520000 Bessarion, Cardinal Epistolae et orationes. With added works
  2. tib00521000 Bessarion, Cardinal Epistolae et orationes [Italian]. Tr: Ludovicus Carbo. Add: Demosthenes: Olynthiaca prima (Tr: Bessarion)
  3. tic00498000 Cicero, Marcus Tullius Scripta rhetorica, et al.
  4. tic00662000 Cicero, Marcus Tullius De oratore (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus), et al.
  5. tic00663000 Cicero, Marcus Tullius De oratore (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus), et al.
  6. tic00665000 Cicero, Marcus Tullius De oratore (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus), et al.
  7. tie00064000 Epistolae Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum (ed. Marcus Musurus) [Latin and Greek].
• subject
  1. tip00830000 Plutarchus Vitae illustrium virorum (ed. Johannes Antonius Campanus), et al.
  2. tip00831000 Plutarchus Vitae illustrium virorum, et al.
  3. tip00832000 Plutarchus Vitae illustrium virorum, et al.
  4. tip00834000 Plutarchus Vitae illustrium virorum, et al.
  5. tip00835000 Plutarchus Vitae illustrium virorum, et al. (ed. Pylades Brixianus).
• translator
  1. tip00837000 Plutarchus Vitae illustrium virorum, et al. [Spanish] Vidas de Plutarcho (trans. Alfonso Fernandez de Palencia).

Gender:

Unknown

CERL Id:

cnp01259266

Author Id:

1692