Demosthenes’ corpus of speeches

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collection of texts corpus of speeches primary source for Athenian political history primary source for classical rhetoric

Demosthenes’ corpus of speeches is the collected body of orations by the Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes, central to classical rhetoric and the political history of fourth-century BCE Athens.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	collection of texts ⓘ corpus of speeches ⓘ primary source for Athenian political history ⓘ primary source for classical rhetoric ⓘ
hasApproximateSize	about sixty speeches in the traditional corpus ⓘ
hasAuthor	Demosthenes NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCanonicalNumbering	traditional numbering 1–61 in many editions ⓘ
hasInfluenced	Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman oratory ⓘ later rhetorical theory ⓘ
hasLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
hasPlaceOfOrigin	Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSubject	Athenian democracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Athenian law and litigation ⓘ Macedonian expansion under Philip II ⓘ foreign policy of Athens ⓘ naval policy of Athens ⓘ public finance in Athens ⓘ
hasTimePeriod	4th century BCE ⓘ Classical Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ
includesGenre	deliberative orations ⓘ epideictic orations ⓘ forensic orations ⓘ
includesWork	Against Aristocrates NERFINISHED ⓘ Against Leptines NERFINISHED ⓘ Against Meidias NERFINISHED ⓘ Against Timocrates NERFINISHED ⓘ First Philippic NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourth Philippic NERFINISHED ⓘ Olynthiac 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Olynthiac 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Olynthiac 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Chersonese NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Embassy NERFINISHED ⓘ On the False Embassy NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Symmories NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Philippic NERFINISHED ⓘ Third Philippic NERFINISHED ⓘ
includesWorkAttributedTo	Demosthenes NERFINISHED ⓘ Pseudo-Demosthenes NERFINISHED ⓘ
isCentralTo	classical rhetoric ⓘ political history of fourth-century BCE Athens ⓘ
isEditedIn	modern critical editions ⓘ
isPreservedIn	medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ
isStudiedIn	ancient history ⓘ classics ⓘ political theory ⓘ rhetorical studies ⓘ

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