The Loeb Classical Library: The Major Declamations, Volume I

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Major Declamations, Volume IThe Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco Roman rhetorical training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes, recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be handled by the aspiring orator. And what is more, they lay bare

and in these respects he undoubtedly influenced Demosthenes

was first published by Oxford University Press in 1927

να βρει τους συγγενείς σοκαρισμένους

asyndeton and assonance

and The Sack of Ilion

ενώ στην πραγματικότητα το μόνο που νιώθει για τη ζωή είναι απέραντη απάθεια

king of Argos

καταλήγει όμως να γίνει πόρνη

Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with a revised text and an extended introduction

Seven men are struggling for power: Cicero the consul

the future Augustus

Ο μυστηριώδης Άρης Αλαβάνος και ο γοητευτικός πιλότος Κωνσταντίνος Θαλάσσης έρχονται στο προσκήνιο με