Commentary On Demosthenes Against Leptines Hardcover Critical Edition

Christos Kremmydas

Against Leptines is one of the most important speeches delivered by Demosthenes. In it he argues against the abolition of all honorific exemptions (ateleiai) from festival liturgies in Athens. An important source for Athenian history in the mid-fourth century BC, the speech broaches a number of issues vital to our understanding of classical Athenian society, politics, and legislation. The questions of public honours, Athenian democratic ideology, and the themes of expediency, justice and injustice, are central to the speech and have made it popular with audiences ever since the classical period.

0199578133

9780199578139

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OUP Oxford

2-Feb-12

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Critical Edition