Greece: 432 B.C.-324 B.C. Vol. I. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations

But it is now time to depart,—for me to die, for you to live. But which of us is going to a better state is unknown to every one but God.

Socrates

The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. I

Greece (432 B.C.–324 B.C.)

Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Index to Authors

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Homer: Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys
Pericles: I. In Favor of the Peloponnesian War; II. On Those Who Died in the War; III. In Defense of Himself
Cleon: On the Punishment of the Mytileneans
Alcibiades: I. In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily; II. To the Spartans
Nicias: Against the Sicilian Expedition
Hermocrates: On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders
Lysias: Against Eratosthenes
Socrates: I. In His Own Defense; II. On Being Declared Guilty; III. On Being Condemned to Death
Isocrates: On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia
Isaeus: In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares
Demosthenes: I. The Second Oration Against Philip; II. On the State of the Chersonesus; III. On the Crown
Aeschines: Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown
Dinarchus: Against Demosthenes