Description Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy.
His early reputation as the best of Greek orators rests on his steadfastness of purpose, his sincerity, his clear a.
We possess by him political speeches and law-court speeches composed for parties in Private Cases and political cases.
Description Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy