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Demosthenes, Funeral Oration, 4


nanThe nobility of birth of these men has been acknowledged from time immemorial by all mankind. For it is possible for them and for each one of their remote ancestors man by man to trace back their being, not only to a physical father, but also to this land of theirs as a whole, a common possession, of which they are acknowledged to be the indigenous children. For alone of all mankind they settled the very land from which they were born and handed it down to their descendants, so that justly one may assume that those who came as migrants into their cities and are denominated citizens of the same are comparable to adopted children; but these men are citizens of their native land by right of legitimate birth.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aristophanes, Wasps, 1076-1080, 1075 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1075. ἐσμὲν ἡμεῖς, οἷς πρόσεστι τοῦτο τοὐρροπύγιον
2. Euripides, Ion, 590-592, 589 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 217-219, 244-248, 282, 4-6, 638-648, 216 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Herodotus, Histories, 7.161.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7.161.3. It would be for nothing, then, that we possess the greatest number of seafaring men in Hellas, if we Athenians yield our command to Syracusans,—we who can demonstrate the longest lineage of all and who alone among the Greeks have never changed our place of habitation; of our stock too was the man of whom the poet Homer says that of all who came to Ilion, he was the best man in ordering and marshalling armies. We accordingly cannot be reproached for what we now say. ”
5. Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 124 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Lysias, Funeral Oration, 18-19, 17 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.2.5, 2.36.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.2.5. Accordingly Attica, from the poverty of its soil enjoying from a very remote period freedom from faction, never changed its inhabitants. 2.36.1. I shall begin with our ancestors: it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of the first mention on an occasion like the present. They dwelt in the country without break in the succession from generation to generation, and handed it down free to the present time by their valor.
8. Demosthenes, Against Meidias, 150 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 69-74, 68 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschines, against timarchus Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
aeschines, and fantasy scenarios Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
aeschines, as former actor Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
alcibiades son of cleinias, in demosthenes Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
alexander i of macedon(ia) Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
argos, argives Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
assembly, athenian, speeches by demosthenes Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
athenians, foundation legend Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
athens, athenians, as autochthonous Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165, 190
athens, athenians, as champions of the oppressed Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
athens, athenians, as intelligent Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
athens, athenians, as unique Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
autochthony, of athenians Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
barbarians, greeks and Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
cleisthenes of sicyon Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
delphi Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
demosthenes, and optimism Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
dinarchus Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
evacuation of athens Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
fictive founder Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
foundation legends, athenians and Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
foundation legends, thebes Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
funeral orations, common topoi Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165, 190
harmodius (descendant) Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
houses, size of Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
hybris Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
hyperides, as user of the past Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
imperialism, athenian, the empire Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
iphicrates, defence against harmodius Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
lycurgus, as user of the past Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
macedon(ia), macedonians, historic athenian relations with Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
meidias Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
menestheus Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
menexenus Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
messene, messenians Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
myth, in oratory Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
noble lie, as origin of cadmus' Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
peloponnese, peloponnesians Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
persia, persians, threats from Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
persian wars, as examples Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
philip ii of macedon(ia), as threat to athens and athenian values Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
poetry, quotation from, in aeschines and demosthenes Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
rhodes, rhodians Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
ship numbers, as topos of athenian praise Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 165
speeches, diplomatic, as genre Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
thebes and thebans, foundation legend Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
tropes and imagery associated with Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
tyranny, and alcibiades Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 190
tyre Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236