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DEMOSTHENES' ON THE CROWN Rhetorical Perspectives Edited by James J. Murphy EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 11/23/2019 5:06 AM via TEL AVIV UNIV AN: 1429312 ; Murphy, James Jerome, Demosthenes.; Demosthenes' 'On the Crown' : Rhetorical Perspectives Account: s7347354.main.ehost Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address DEMOSTHENES' ON THE CROWN Rhetorical Perspectives Edited by James J. Murphy Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com Copyright © 2016 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Chapter 2 copyright © 2016 by Donovan J. Ochs; chapter 3 copyright © 2016 by Edwina M. Keaney; chapter 8 copyright © 2016 by Richard Leo Enos This book is a revised version of Demosthenes’ “On the Crown”: A Critical Case Study of a Masterpiece of Ancient Oratory, published by Hermagoras Press in 1983. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 4 3 2 1 Cover illustration: Artemis temple columns. iStock.com / Ahmad Atwah Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Murphy, James Jerome, editor. | Demosthenes. On the crown. English. Title: Demosthenes’ “on the crown” : rhetorical perspectives / edited by James J. Murphy. Description: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. | Series: Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address | Includes bibliographical references and index. | “This book is a revised version of Demosthenes’ “On the Crown”: A Critical Case Study of a Masterpiece of Ancient Oratory, published by Hermagoras Press in 1983.” Identifiers: LCCN 2016012977 | ISBN 9780809335107 (paperback) | ISBN 9780809335114 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Demosthenes. On the crown. | Rhetoric, Ancient— History and criticism. | Oratory, Ancient | BISAC: language arts & disciplines / Rhetoric. | language arts & disciplines / Speech. | language arts & disciplines / Communication Studies. Classification: LCC PA3950.C6 D4 2016 | DDC 885/.01—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016012977 Contents Introduction 1 James J. Murphy Part One. Demosthenes and His Greatest Speech 1. Demosthenes and His Times 9 Lois P. Agnew 2. Aeschines’ Speech Against Ctesiphon: An Abstract 36 Donovan J. Ochs 3. Demosthenes’ Oration On the Crown: A Translation 46 John J. Keaney Part Two. Rhetorical Evaluations 4.A Structural Analysis of the Speech On the Crown 105 Francis P. Donnelly, SJ 5. Ēthos in On the Crown 114 David C. Mirhady 6. Crafting Nostalgia: Pathos in On the Crown 130 Richard A. Katula v Contents 7. On the Deinos Logos of On the Crown 148 Jeffrey Walker 8. Demosthenes’ Style: Lexis in On the Crown 174 Richard Leo Enos Epilogue 205 James J. Murphy Select Bibliography 209 Contributors 223 Index 225 vi Demosthenes’ On the Crown Introduction James J. Murphy Next comes the vast army of orators—so vast that a single age produced ten of them at Athens. Of these, Demosthenes was by far the greatest, almost a law of oratory in himself: such is his force, the concentration of his thought, his muscular firmness, his economy, his control—one feels that there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous. —Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, 10.1.76 The Renown of Demosthenes This praise of Demosthenes by the Roman rhetorician and educator Marcus Fabius Quintilianus about the year 95 in the first Christian century1 is typi- cal of Demosthenes’ reputation in the more than two thousand years since he delivered his most famous oration, On the Crown, in 330 bce. Even his opponent on that occasion, Aeschines, who went into exile fol- lowing his defeat in this famous case, later praised his speech to the students he was instructing on the island of Rhodes. The story is told that Aeschines had been declaiming his own crown speech to the students, who marveled that such a fine performance could still have failed to gain one-fifth of the votes—the minimum necessary under Athenian law to avoid a fine in such cases. “But oh,” Aeschines said, “if only you had heard Demosthenes!” The Roman orator Cicero was so entranced by the speech that he translated it into Latin together with that of Aeschines. Unfortunately the translations 1
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