The World's Famous Orations/Volume 1

by (ed.) William Jennings Bryan

The World's Famous Orations

VOL. I

GREECE

432 B.C.–324 B.C.

THE
WORLD'S
FAMOUS
ORATIONS

 

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

FRANCIS W. HALSEY
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

SUBSCRIPTION EDITION
IN TEN VOLUMES

Vol. I
GREECE

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
New York and London

Copyright 1906 by

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS
 

Vol. I—Greece (432 B.C.—324 B.C.)
	Page
Preface	v
Introduction	x
Achilles—His Reply to the Envoys (Legendary)	3
Pericles—I In Favor of the Peloponnesian War (432 B.C.)	9
II On Those Who Died in the War (430 B.C.)	16
III In Defense of Himself (430 B.C.)	27
Cleon—On the Punishment of the Mytileneans (427 B.C.)	34
Alcibiades—I In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily (414 B.C.)	41
II To the Spartans (413 B.C.)	47
Nicias—Against the Sicilian Expedition (414 B.C.)	49
Hermocrates—On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders (416 B.C.)	55
Lysias—Against Eratosthenes (403 B.C.)	61
Socrates—I In His Own Defense (399 B.C.)	65
II On Being Declared Guilty (399 B.C.)	77
III On Being Condemned to Death (399 B.C.)	82
Isocrates—On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia (380 B.C.)	89
Isaeus—In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares	101
Demosthenes—I The Second Oration Against Philip (344 B.C.)	110
II On the State of the Chersonesus (342 B.C.)	120
III On the Crown (330 B.C.)	143
Aeschines—Against Ctesiphon; or, On the Crown (330 B.C.)	186
Dinarchus—Against Demosthenes (324 B.C.)	233