The speeches of Demosthenes, ancient Greece's greatest orator, urging Athens to resist the rising power of Macedon. They are models of forceful, principled political oratory.
Sources for Demosthenes — The Public Orations
Demosthenes — The Public Orations in Rhetoric
Held in the Rhetoric chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aristotle — Rhetoric (−330)
- Cicero — De Oratore (On the Orator) (−55)
- Quintilian — Institutio Oratoria (The Orator's Education) (95)
- Longinus — On the Sublime (100)
- Augustine — De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine) (397)
- Vico — The New Science (1725)
- Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783)