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The World's Famous Orations

VOL. I

GREECE

432 B.C.–324 B.C.

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THE
WORLD'S
FAMOUS
ORATIONS


WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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FRANCIS W. HALSEY
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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SUBSCRIPTION EDITION
IN TEN VOLUMES

Vol. I
GREECE

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
New York and London

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Copyright 1906 by

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

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CONTENTS
 
Vol. I—Greece (432 B.C.—324 B.C.)
Page
Preface v
Introduction x
Achilles—His 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
Cleon—On 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
Nicias—Against the Sicilian Expedition (414 B.C.) 49
Hermocrates—On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders (416 B.C.) 55
Lysias—Against 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
Isocrates—On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia (380 B.C.) 89
Isaeus—In 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
Aeschines—Against Ctesiphon; or, On the Crown (330 B.C.) 186
Dinarchus—Against Demosthenes (324 B.C.) 233
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