TY - BOOK ID - 135419892 TI - Demosthenes of Athens and the fall of classical Greece PY - 2013 SN - 0190263563 0199931968 9780199931965 9780190263560 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Statesmen KW - Orators KW - Demosthenes. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135419892 AB - Regarded as ancient Greece's greatest orator, Demosthenes lived through and helped shape one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. This biography's chronological arrangement brings Demosthenes vividly to life, discussing his troubled childhood and youth, the obstacles he faced in his public career, his fierce rivalries with other Athenian politicians, his successes and failures, and even his posthumous influence as a politician and orator. ER -