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The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

The World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

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This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles, Pericles, and Socrates, with their most famous (legendary or traditional) orations and speeches. - Summary by Carolin


Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 2

Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 2

Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 3

Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys by Homer

Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 1

Alcibiades - I. - In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily

Alcibiades - II. - To the Spartans

Cleon - On the Punishment of the Mytileneans

Demosthenes - I. - The Second Oration Against Philip

Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 1

Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 1

Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 2

Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 3

Dinarchus - Against Demosthenes

Hermocrates - On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders

Introduction

Isaeus - In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares

Isocrates - On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia

Lysias - Against Eratosthenes

Nicias - Against the Sicilian Expedition

Pericles - I. - In Favor of the Peloponnesian War

Pericles - II. - On Those Who Died in the War

Pericles - III. - In Defense of Himself

Preface

Socrates - I. - In His Own Defense

Socrates - II. - On Being Declared Guilty

Socrates - III. - On Being Condemned to Death