Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches, Paperback

The four private speeches contained in this collection were functional artefacts whose object was to persuade a jury numbered in hundreds by manipulating both the facts of the case and the prejudices, beliefs and attitudes of the Athenian man-in-the-street. A commentary sheds light on their effectiveness.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Demosthenes
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 252
• Collection: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Publication date: 1985
• Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 20
• Cover type: Paperback / softback
• Editor(s): R. A. Reid