Course Description
Demosthenes has long enjoyed a reputation as the best of the Greek orators - a view found, for instance, in Cicero, who knew a thing or two about giving a speech. Through close reading of the First and Third Philippics, On the Crown, and selections from other speeches, together with the necessary secondary literature, this course will examine what it is about Demosthenes' language, style, and rhetoric that led to his preeminence in the field.
