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Demosthenes, On The Crown, 267


nanLet me now read to you the testimony of the public services I have rendered, and you shall read for comparison some of the blank-verse you used to make such a hash of: ' From gates of gloom and dwellings of the dead, or Tidings of woe with heavy heart I bear, or, 'Oh cruel, cruel fate!' Such a fate may the gods first, and the jury afterwards, allot to you — for your citizenship is as worthless as your mummery. Read the depositions. Deposition


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

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 241-292, 294-771, 775-776, 804, 813-828, 240 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

240. However, when to both the foreigner
2. Solon, Fragments, 4 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)

3. Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 25-26, 141 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 97 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

5. Demosthenes, On The Crown, 209 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Demosthenes, On The False Embassy, 245, 247, 251-252, 255, 243 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Horace, Ars Poetica, 122 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

8. Plutarch, Solon, 8.1-8.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

8.2. and a report was given out to the city by his family that he showed signs of madness. He then secretly composed some elegiac verses, and after rehearsing them so that he could say them by rote, he sallied out into the market-place of a sudden, with a cap upon his head. After a large crowd had collected there, he got upon the herald’s stone and recited the poem which begins:— Behold in me a herald come from lovely Salamis, With a song in ordered verse instead of a harangue. Only six more verses are preserved ( Fragments 1-3, Bergk ). They contain reproaches of the Athenians for abandoning Salamis, and an exhortation to go and fight for it.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
aeschines, against timarchus Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
aeschines, on the embassy Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
aeschines, voice of Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
aeschylus, and actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
ajax (sophocles), characters in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
antigone (sophocles), characters in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
art of poetry, the (horace) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
characters Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
comedy Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
demosthenes, on the tritagonist Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
demosthenes Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
deuteragonist Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
drama Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
epidaurus, epidaurians Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
euripides Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
hecuba Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
horace, on actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
imitation, of ancestors Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
imitation, of historical models Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
imitation, of statues poses Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
information, from the outside, and actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
leocrates Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
oedipus at colonus (sophocles), actors in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
oedipus the king (sophocles), actors in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
philoctetes (sophocles), characters in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
poetic quotations Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
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) 237
protagonist Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199
solon, and aeschines Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
solon, and demosthenes Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
solon, and retaking salamis Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
solon, and the cap Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
solon, as poet Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
solon Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
solons move to retake Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
statue of, in salamis Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
statue of solon Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
timarchus Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 237
tragedy' Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
tritagonist Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 199