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Demosthenes was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide 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 whi…
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politics · Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC) · politician · diplomat · orator · writer · also Demosthenes, Dimosthenis
Born 384 BC · Died 322 BC · Q117253
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Now, as soon as you please you may commence the part of Creon in the tragedy, and cast out this body of mine unburied. But, O gracious Neptune, I, for my part, while I am yet alive, arise up and depart out of this sacred place; though Antipater and the Macedonians have not left so much as the temple unpolluted.
“Now, as soon as you please you may commence the part of Creon in the tragedy, and cast out this body of mine unburied. But, O gracious Neptune, I, for my part, while I am yet alive, arise up and depart out of this sacred place; though Antipater and the Macedonians have not left so much as the temple unpolluted.”
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BBC: Demosthenes' Philippics
An American botanist Albert Charles Smith named a genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, which were native to South America, as Demosthenesia in honour of Demosthenes
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At the University of Georgia, was named in honor of Demosthenes
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