Demosthenes | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:02:58 1 Early years and personal life
00:03:09 1.1 Family and personal life
00:05:25 1.2 Education
00:08:05 1.3 Speech training
00:08:14 2 Career
00:11:11 2.1 Legal career
00:11:21 2.2 Early political activity
00:13:34 2.3 Confrontation with Philip II
00:13:44 2.3.1 First Philippic and the Olynthiacs (351–349&#160;BC)
00:17:02 2.3.2 Case of Meidias (348&#160;BC)
00:21:48 2.3.3 Peace of Philocrates (347–345&#160;BC)
00:21:59 2.3.4 Second and Third Philippics (344–341&#160;BC)
00:25:47 2.3.5 Battle of Chaeronea (338&#160;BC)
00:27:23 2.4 Last political initiatives and death
00:30:35 2.4.1 Confrontation with Alexander
00:33:01 2.4.2 Delivery of iOn the Crown/i
00:37:03 2.4.3 Case of Harpalus and death
00:37:14 3 Assessments
00:40:28 3.1 Political career
00:41:45 3.2 Oratorical skill
00:44:56 4 Rhetorical legacy
00:45:06 5 Works and transmission
00:49:22 6 See also
00:56:06 7 Notes
00:59:22 8 References
01:02:25 9 Sources



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Demosthenes (; Greek: Δημοσθένης Dēmosthénēs; Attic Greek: [dɛːmosˈtʰenɛːs]; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of 20, in which he argued effectively to gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer (logographer) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.
Demosthenes grew interested in politics during his time as a logographer, and in 354 BC he gave his first public political speeches. He went on to devote his most productive years to opposing Macedon's expansion. He idealized his city and strove throughout his life to restore Athens' supremacy and motivate his compatriots against Philip II of Macedon. He sought to preserve his city's freedom and to establish an alliance against Macedon, in an unsuccessful attempt to impede Philip's plans to expand his influence southward by conquering all the other Greek states.
After Philip's death, Demosthenes played a leading part in his city's uprising against the new king of Macedonia, Alexander the Great. However, his efforts failed and the revolt was met with a harsh Macedonian reaction. To prevent a similar revolt against his own rule, Alexander's successor in this region, Antipater, sent his men to track Demosthenes down. Demosthenes took his own life, in order to avoid being arrested by Archias of Thurii, Antipater's confidant.
The Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace recognised Demosthenes as one of the ten greatest Attic orators and logographers. Longinus likened Demosthenes to a blazing thunderbolt, and argued that he "perfected to the utmost the tone of lofty speech, living passions, copiousness, readiness, speed". Quintilian extolled him as lex orandi ("the standard of oratory"), and Cicero said about him that inter omnis unus excellat ("he stands alone among all the orators"), and he also acclaimed him as "the perfect orator" who lacked nothing.