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oapen-20.500.12657-603672024-03-27T14:14:57Z Chapter Forms of government and rhetoric: perceptions of democracy and oligarchy in Demosthenes Gontijo Leite, Priscilla rhetoric Demosthenes democracy oligarchy thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies Demosthenes is recognized as a defender of Athenian democracy and freedom, particularly in voicing his concern about the growth of Macedonian power. While the defence of democracy is a recurring theme in his speeches, Demosthenes did not develop a theory of democracy. Rather, he tended to idealize the Athenian democratic experience. Further, in his defence of democracy and the ethos of the democratic citizen, Demosthenes references oligarchy, though again not from a theoretical perspective. The objective of this paper is to analyse Demosthenes’s use of the democratic and oligarchical forms of government in his defence of Athens, with a focus on his construction of an antithesis between them and his deployment of the Athenian experiences with oligarchy in 411 and 404 BC in his oratory. 2022-12-22T16:05:52Z 2022-12-22T16:05:52Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20221222_9788855186124_29 2704-5919 9788855186124 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60367 eng Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 10_36253_978-88-5518-612-4_08.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-612-4_7 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4.08 10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4.08 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855186124 239 21 Florence open access
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Demosthenes is recognized as a defender of Athenian democracy and freedom, particularly in voicing his concern about the growth of Macedonian power. While the defence of democracy is a recurring theme in his speeches, Demosthenes did not develop a theory of democracy. Rather, he tended to idealize the Athenian democratic experience. Further, in his defence of democracy and the ethos of the democratic citizen, Demosthenes references oligarchy, though again not from a theoretical perspective. The objective of this paper is to analyse Demosthenes’s use of the democratic and oligarchical forms of government in his defence of Athens, with a focus on his construction of an antithesis between them and his deployment of the Athenian experiences with oligarchy in 411 and 404 BC in his oratory.
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