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World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

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    Antiquity
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    English
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This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles, Pericles, and Socrates, with their most famous (legendary or traditional) orations and speeches. - Summary by Carolin

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  • 01
    Preface
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  • 02
    Introduction
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  • 03
    Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys by Homer
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  • 04
    Pericles - I. - In Favor of the Peloponnesian War
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    Pericles - II. - On Those Who Died in the War
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    Pericles - III. - In Defense of Himself
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  • 07
    Cleon - On the Punishment of the Mytileneans
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  • 08
    Alcibiades - I. - In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily
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    Alcibiades - II. - To the Spartans
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    Nicias - Against the Sicilian Expedition
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    Hermocrates - On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders
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  • 12
    Lysias - Against Eratosthenes
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    Socrates - I. - In His Own Defense
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    Socrates - II. - On Being Declared Guilty
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    Socrates - III. - On Being Condemned to Death
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    Isocrates - On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia
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  • 17
    Isaeus - In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares
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  • 18
    Demosthenes - I. - The Second Oration Against Philip
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  • 19
    Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 1
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    Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 2
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    Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 1
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    Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 2
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    Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 3
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  • 24
    Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 1
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    Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 2
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    Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 3
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    Dinarchus - Against Demosthenes
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