Article: Avengers of blood; homicide in Athenian law and custom from Draco to Demosthenes.(Historia Einzelschriften)(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Demosthenes
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Demosthenes Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) is regarded as the greatest of Greek orators ... implications for traditional Athenian and Greek political freedom. Demosthenes was the son of a wealthy manufacturer of weapons named Demosthenes ...

Article: What Demosthenes could whisper to Reagan.
National Review;  June 14, 1985 ;     700+ words ... ... 300 years ago. The Athenian orator Demosthenes, who had the greatest practical experience ... during his second term. Is there a Demosthenes in the White House? The President can ... they can be illuminating. Reagan and Demosthenes held the same beliefs and values, defined ...

Article: Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat.(Brief ...
The Historian;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Demosthenes' lifetime (384/3-322/1 B.C ... II and the Macedonians than from that of Demosthenes and the Athenians. Raphael Sealey here offers a history of the Athens of Demosthenes and the orator's role in shaping that ...

Article: What democracy meant to the Athenians. (Demosthenes v. ...
History Today;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...One day in 346 BC Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, citizen of the city-state (polis) of Athens, marched ... named Meidias. After consideration, the magistrate put Demosthenes' case against Meidias onto the judicial calendar. On ...

Article: Plutarch's Lives: Comparison Of Demosthenes And Cicero
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... Arthur Hugh Clough Comparison Of Demosthenes And Cicero These are the most ... circumstances recorded in history of Demosthenes and Cicero which have come to ... much seems fit to be said; that Demosthenes, to make himself a master in ...

Article: Plutarch's Lives: Demosthenes, Part I.
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... Translation: Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough Demosthenes, Part I. Whoever it was, Sosius ... mentioned in the account, further on, of Demosthenes' death, was a native of Aegina ... Parallel Lives, in giving an account of Demosthenes and Cicero, my comparison of their ...

Article: Plutarch's Lives: Demosthenes, Part II.
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... Translation: Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough Demosthenes, Part II. But when things came at ... the other side, being stirred up by Demosthenes, the first action he put them upon ... hardest task was yet behind, left for Demosthenes, to draw the Thebans into this confederacy ...