Title The World's Famous Orations, Volume 1: Greece
Editor William Jennings Bryan
Year 1906
Publisher Funk and Wagnall
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded
Volumes
Volume 1
Volume 2: Rome
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9: America II
Volume 10
CONTENTS
 

Vol. I—Greece (432 B.C.—324 B.C.)
Page
Preface v
Introduction x
AchillesHis Reply to the Envoys (Legendary) 3
Pericles—I In Favor of the Peloponnesian War (432 B.C.) 9
     II On Those Who Died in the War (430 B.C.) 16
    III In Defense of Himself (430 B.C.) 27
CleonOn the Punishment of the Mytileneans (427 B.C.) 34
Alcibiades—I In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily (414 B.C.) 41
  II To the Spartans (413 B.C.) 47
NiciasAgainst the Sicilian Expedition (414 B.C.) 49
HermocratesOn the Union of Sicily Against Invaders (416 B.C.) 55
LysiasAgainst Eratosthenes (403 B.C.) 61
Socrates—I In His Own Defense (399 B.C.) 65
   II On Being Declared Guilty (399 B.C.) 77
  III On Being Condemned to Death (399 B.C.) 82
IsocratesOn the Union of Greece to Resist Persia (380 B.C.) 89
IsaeusIn the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares 101
Demosthenes—I The Second Oration Against Philip (344 B.C.) 110
    II On the State of the Chersonesus (342 B.C.) 120
   III On the Crown (330 B.C.) 143
AeschinesAgainst Ctesiphon; or, On the Crown (330 B.C.) 186
DinarchusAgainst Demosthenes (324 B.C.) 233
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Volume I
FACING
PAGE
William Jennings BryanFrontispiece
The Acropolis at Athensx
Achilles4
Pericles20
Alcibiades44
Nicias52
Lysias62
Socrates68
Isocrates96
Demosthenes110
Æschines186
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