Greek and Roman Oratory by Alan Weller

Greek and Roman Oratory by Alan Weller

The citizens of ancient Greece and Roman raised public speaking to an art form, and their addresses continue to rank among the world's most illustrious examples of oratory. From Demosthenes' First Philippic, a rousing call to Athenians to resist foreign invaders, to Cicero's Catiline Orations, which exposed an internal plot to overthrow the Roman government, this compilation comprises 22 of antiquity's most eloquent speeches.
Featured orations include Pericles' Funeral Speech, as preserved in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War; Socrates' The Apology, in which the philosopher defended himself against charges of corrupting Athenian youth; Julius Caesar's speech to the Roman senate, On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators; and Publius Cornelius Scipio's To His Soldiers, delivered before a decisive battle against Hannibal and the Carthaginians. Additional orations by other generals and statesmen examine the concepts of justice, political rectitude, and social order.

Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of more than 20 Dover Thrift Editions and many other books. He has published essays about his own experiences as a teacher and regularly reviews books for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor. He is also the editor of The Dover Anthology of American Literature.

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Title	Greek and Roman Oratory
Author	Alan Weller
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2014-04-30
Number of pages	160
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