Greek Orators V: Demosthenes - On the Crown

Stephen Usher was Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London. He wrote extensively on oratory and is the author of The Historians of Greece and Rome (Hamish Hamilton, 1969), Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Critical Essays (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1974), Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Cicero’s Speeches: The Critic in Action (Aris & Phillips, 2008). He has also edited and translated speeches for Greek Orators I, III and V in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series (volumes I and III co-edited with Mark Edwards).

• PrefaceINTRODUCTIONDemosthenes' LifeEarly LifeCareer to 346 B.C. Ascent and DeclineThe Last YearsBackground to the TrialThe Case against CtesiphonOrdo HomericusDemosthenes' StyleBIBLIOGRAPHYON THE CROWNText and TranslationThe Text and Apparatus CriticusCOMMENTARYINDEX

‘The introduction provides an excellent summary. Usher’s great strength is in his notes on rhetoric and arguments; he surpasses all previous commentators.’ Classical Review