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Bust of Demosthenes, Louvre, copy of a statue by Polyeuktos (CC BY-SA 2.5)
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Auteur

Démosthène

384–322 BC · Orator and statesman

An orphan cheated of his inheritance who taught himself to speak, sued his guardians and became the greatest orator of Athens. He spent his life rousing the city against Philip of Macedon and took poison rather than be taken by Philip’s successors.

Sur l’étagère

Lire Démosthène.

63 œuvres

All sixty-one speeches under his name, with the Exordia and the Letters, in Greek beside English.

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