Table of Contents

• Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin)
• Translator's Acknowledgments (Ian Worthington)
• Speech Numbers and Titles
• Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin)
  • Oratory in Classical Athens
  • The Orators
  • The Works of the Orators
  • Government and Law in Classical Athens
  • The Translation of Greek Oratory
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Currency
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
• Introduction to Demosthenes (Michael Gagarin)
  • Life
  • Works
  • Style
  • Significance
• Introduction to This Volume (Ian Worthington)
  • The Works in This Volume
  • Historical Background to the Funeral Oration and Letters
  • The Prologues and the Erotic Essay
  • Note on the Text
• Demosthenes (Ian Worthington)
  • 60. Funeral Oration
  • 61. Erotic Essay
  • Prologues
  • Letters 1-6
• Bibliography for This Volume
• Index

Promotional Information

Works by or attributed to the greatest orator of classical antiquity, which illuminate Athenian culture and politics in the 330s and 320s BC.

About the Author

Ian Worthington is the Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia.