The Greek orators

Name: The Greek orators
Author: Dobson, J. F. (John Frederic)

Dobson, J. F. (John Frederic)

Orators -- Greece; Oratory, Ancient; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism

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THE GREEK ORATORS

                                   THE
                              GREEK ORATORS

                                    BY
                           J. F. DOBSON, M. A.
                       TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
                   PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY
                                OF BRISTOL

                            METHUEN & CO. LTD.
                           36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
                                  LONDON

                        _First Published in 1919_

PREFACE

The object of this book is to provide a reasonably short account of
the works of the Orators and to give a general idea of the style of
each. It seemed to me at the outset that this object could be best
attained, not by applying methods of scientific analysis, but by giving
numerous quotations from the speeches to emphasise the points which I
wished to bring out. I have therefore avoided as far as possible the
technicalities of criticism, and illustrated my remarks by translations
of characteristic passages, hoping thus to make my work easily accessible
not only to classical students, but also to others who, while generally
interested in the Classics, have not the time or the capacity to study
them in the original.

I have no idea of superseding the standard works on the subject, such
as Jebb’s _Attic Orators_ and Blass’ _Attische Beredsamkeit_, which
deal with the subject more fully and from a somewhat different point of
view. No student of the Orators can afford to neglect the works of these
scholars, but though I have frequently consulted them, I have by no
means considered myself bound by their opinions; in fact, my chief claim
to consideration is that my own judgments are entirely independent of
authority, and are based directly upon a first-hand study of the extant
writings of the Orators.

The chief work, in addition to the two above mentioned, to which I am
indebted is Croiset’s _Histoire de la Littérature Grecque_.

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I have to thank Balliol College and the Clarendon Press for permission to
print extracts from Jowett’s _Plato_.

                                                              J. F. DOBSON

BRISTOL, _July 1919_

CONTENTS

    CHAP.                                     PAGE

       I. THE BEGINNINGS OF ORATORY              1

      II. ANTIPHON                              19

     III. THRASYMACHUS—ANDOCIDES                50

      IV. LYSIAS                                74

       V. ISAEUS                               103

      VI. ISOCRATES                            126

     VII. MINOR RHETORICIANS                   160

    VIII. AESCHINES                            163

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