On the False Embassy (Oration 19) Edited with Introduction and Commentary,9780198153030

On the False Embassy (Oration 19) Edited with Introduction and Commentary

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ISBN13: 9780198153030
ISBN10: 0198153031
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-22
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

In 346 BC. the Athenians negotiated a peace treaty with King Philip II of Macedon, but afterwards one of the Athenian ambassadors, Demosthenes, accused another, Aiskhines, of accepting a bribe from Philip to contrive that the terms of the treaty should be favourable to him. The case came to trial three years later, and On the False Embassy is the speech which Demosthenes prepared for the prosecution. It is one of the most famous pieces of ancient oratory, and it is also one of the principal sources of information about the politics of its period. This volume is on the same lines as Professor MacDowell's previous edition of Demosthenes' speech Against Meidias . It includes an introduction concentrating especially on the historical circumstances, a revised Greek text based on fresh study of the manuscripts, an English translation on pages facing the text, and the first detailed commentary on the speech for over a hundred years.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and bibliography ix
Chronology of events xvii
Introduction
The Peace of Philokrates
1(13)
The prosecution of Aiskhines
14(8)
Demosthenes' speech
22(8)
Manuscripts and text
30(24)
SIGLA 54(3)
TEXT AND TRANSLATION 57(147)
COMMENTARY 204(151)
APPENDIX: THE HYPOTHESES 355(6)
INDEXES 361(1)
I. English
361(6)
II. Greek
367

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