On the crown.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 5204 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2002 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799483 |
Classic bilingual collection. Written around 330 BC, On the Crown is considered his greatest speech. In it, he defends, once again, the policy he had advocated in the war against Philip, thus opposing another famous orator, Aeschines, whom he treats as corrupt. We find in these pages all the oratorical qualities that made the genius of the author, capable of passing, from one sentence to the next, through all the emotions, of making an entire assembly or an entire people react, both visionary and meditative. Two famous examples are found in On the Crown: the description of the panic in Athens following the announcement of the imminent arrival, at the gates of the city, of Philip's armies; the grandiose evocation of a battle that forged the historical imagination of the Greek people, that of Marathon (490 BC), against the Persians.
Classic bilingual collection. Written around 330 BC, On the Crown is considered his greatest speech. In it, he defends, once again, the policy he had advocated in the war against Philip, thus opposing another famous orator, Aeschines, whom he treats as corrupt. We find in these pages all the oratorical qualities that made the genius of the author, capable of passing, from one sentence to the next, through all the emotions, of making an entire assembly or an entire people react, both visionary and meditative. Two famous examples are found in On the Crown: the description of the panic in Athens following the announcement of the imminent arrival, at the gates of the city, of Philip's armies; the grandiose evocation of a battle that forged the historical imagination of the Greek people, that of Marathon (490 BC), against the Persians.