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Demosthenis Orationes Ex Recensione Guilielmi Dindorfii, 3 Volumes, 4th Edition, In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri, Leipzig, 1892, 1901, 444pp, 508pp, 466pp, 3/4 leather, 5 x 7\", 12mo
Fair condition. Wear and chipping to boards. Tips are bumped. Marbled boards. Volume numbers handwritten in white ink on spines. Possible provenance on flyleaf of each volume. Marginalia throughout textblock of volume I. Pages 337-352 of volume III have been bound in upside down. Toning and age-staining throughout textblocks. Textblocks are cracked. Please see photos.
Demosthenes (384 - 12 October 322 BC) 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 which he successfully argued that he should gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speechwriter (logographer) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.
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