Demosthenes, Against Meidias (oration 21)Demosthenes was punched in the face by Meidias in the theater at Athens in 348 B.C. His prosecution speech for this offence is one of the most intriguing texts in Greek literature. It tells the story of his long feud with Meidias and gives much valuable information about Athenian law and festivals, and about the concept of insolent behavior which the Greeks call hubris. This edition presents a larger number of manuscripts than earlier editors have used, and is supplemented with a double apparatus criticus giving testimonia and variant readings. It also provides a full introduction on historical, legal, literary, and textual matters, a complete translation of the speech, and a more detailed commentary than any previously published. |
Contents
The quarrel between Demosthenes and Meidias | 1 |
II | 11 |
Prosecution and offence | 13 |
Copyright | |
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accusative acts arbitrator Athenian Athens called century chorus clear concerning consider copy correct court Demosthenes Dilts Dionysia documents Ekklesia errors evidence fact festival give given Hermog homicide hybris implies insolence instances jury kind known later less manuscripts means Meidias mentioned merely normal offence omitted oration passage penalty perform perhaps person phrase possible present probably proposed prosecution reading reason refer schol seems sense sentence SFYP shows speech suggests thing trial verb vote written ἀλλ ἀλλὰ ἂν ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι γὰρ δὲ δίκην εἰ εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ ὅτι οὐ οὐδ οὐδὲ οὐκ περὶ πρὸς τὰ ταῦτα τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τοῦτο τούτων τῷ τῶν ὑμῖν ὑμῶν ὦ ἄνδρες ὡς
Bibliographic information
| Title | Demosthenes, Against Meidias (oration 21) |
| Author | Demosthenes |
| Editor | Douglas Maurice MacDowell |
| Translated by | Douglas Maurice MacDowell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Sep 2, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0198147635, 9780198147633 |
| Length | 440 pages |
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