The Loeb Classical Library: The Major Declamations, Volume III

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Major Declamations, Volume IIIThe Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco Roman rhetorical training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes, recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be handled by the aspiring orator. And what is more, they lay bare

and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered

informative notes

and Isthmian games

Plato’s Meno is the dialogue which more than any other occupies a transitional position between the early Socratic dialogues and the developed middle period theory of the Phaedo

James Romm’s splendid new translation of essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Seneca’s argument that generosity and gratitude are among the most important of all virtues

και πάει λέγοντας

and how and why he narrates it as he does

by 70 BC he had established himself as a leading barrister and was beginning a successful political career

flying in the face of current orthodoxy

eulogy in Laus Pisonis

In this new commentary

Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context

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