| 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. |
| —On Being Condemned to Death |
| 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
NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002
- 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