Ten mythological and historical declamations : introduction, translation and notes /
This book offers translations of ten rhetorical declamations of the fourth-century AD sophist Libanius of Antioch and some related texts, almost all appearing for the first time in a modern language. In these works the declaimer impersonates such mythological or historical figures as Poseidon, Paris...
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Table of Contents:
- Declamation 3. An ambassadorial oration to the Trojans in behalf of Helen : Menelaus
- Declamation 4. An ambassadorial oration to the Trojans on behalf of Helen : Odysseus
- Declamation 5. Achilles's reply to Odysseus's ambassadorial speech of engreaty
- Declamation 6. Orestes
- Declamation 7. Poseidon
- Declamation 8. Ares in reply
- Declamation 11. Cimon asking to be imprisoned instead of his father
- Declamation 13. The Corinthian oration against the Athenians
- Declamation 14. Callaeschrus and Critias
- Declamation 24. Defense of Archidamus.
