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Title: Demosthenes: I Olynthiacs, Philippics Minor Publicorations I-XVII and XX (Loeb Classical Library) by Demosthenes, J.H. Vince ISBN: 0-674-99263-6 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: good for lawyers
Comment: This is a very good book for lawyers because D. was one of the
best orators of ancient times,BUT he was a terrible menace to his
country Athens:He underestimated the power of Alexander,he accepted bribery from Persia and finally drew his county to war(which Athens lost).
What he claims for Philip(not being Greek but a barbarian)is very
natural since all fanatic Atheniens of his time hated Spartans,
Thebans and eventually Macedons since they where a menace to Athen's hegemony over Greece.Before you buy this book for political reasons bear in mind that Macedons:
Were considered Greek by Isocrates(D. great political opponent);
Always participated in Olympic names;
Worshiped the greek gods and beared greek names(elementary ancient greek is needed to understand what Alexander and Philip mean...)Get a life!
Rating: 5
Summary: A glimpse of an ancient time
Comment: Considering the discourse about to be incited by the making of 3 new motion pictures about Alexander the Great, it's good to re-visit the primary sources from that time. This is especially valuable in regard to continous Greek propaganda aiming to appropriate and assimilate all things Macedonian, while even the Merriam-Webster Dictionary explains that there's no evidence that ancient Macedonian language was Greek:
Main Entry: Mac·e·do·nian
Pronunciation: "ma-s&-'dO-ny&n, -nE-&n
Function: noun
1 : a native or inhabitant of Macedonia
2 : the Slavic language of modern Macedonia
3 : the language of ancient Macedonia of uncertain affinity but generally assumed to be Indo-European
Excerpt from the Third Philippic:
[30] Ay, and you know this also, that the wrongs which the Greeks suffered from the Lacedaemonians or from us, they suffered at all events at the hands of true-born sons of Greece, and they might have been regarded as the acts of a legitimate son, born to great possessions, who should be guilty of some fault or error in the management of his estate: so far he would deserve blame and reproach, yet it could not be said that it was not one of the blood, not the lawful heir who was acting thus. [31] But if some slave or superstitious bastard had wasted and squandered what he had no right to, heavens! how much more monstrous and exasperating all would have called it! Yet they have no such qualms about Philip and his present conduct, though he is not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honor, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave.
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Title: Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War: Books V and VI by Thucydides, Charles Forster Smith ISBN: 0674991222 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1921 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Demosthenes III: Against Meidias, Androtion, Aristocrates, Timocrates, Aristogeiton (Loeb Classical Library, No 299) by Demosthenes, J. H. Vince ISBN: 0674993306 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1978 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Demosthenes: Funeral Speech by Demosthenes, Bodart-Bailey, E. H. Warmington ISBN: 0674994124 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1949 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Demosthenes: De Corona De Falsa Legatione (Loeb Classical Library, Vol 155) by Demosthene, Demosthenes, J. H. Vince, C. A. Vince ISBN: 0674991710 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1979 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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