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Demosthenes, Orations, 3.24

nan Now your ancestors, whom their orators, unlike ours today, did not caress or flatter, for five and forty years The interval between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. commanded the willing obedience of the Greeks; more than ten thousand talents did they accumulate in our Acropolis; the then king of Macedonia Perdiccas II.; a pardonable exaggeration. was their subject, even as a barbarian ought to be subject to Greeks; many honorable trophies for victory on sea and land did they erect, themselves serving in the field; and they alone of mankind left behind them by their deeds a renown greater than all detraction.

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

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1. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 645-658, 644 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 644. ἥξουσιν ἰδεῖν ἐπιθυμοῦντες τὸν ποιητὴν τὸν ἄριστον
2. Isocrates, Orations, 12.140 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.75-1.77, 2.36.2-2.36.3, 2.41.3, 2.62-2.64, 3.37-3.40, 3.44-3.48, 5.89-5.99, 6.10-6.11, 6.17-6.18 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.36.2. And if our more remote ancestors deserve praise, much more do our own fathers, who added to their inheritance the empire which we now possess, and spared no pains to be able to leave their acquisitions to us of the present generation. 2.36.3. Lastly, there are few parts of our dominions that have not been augmented by those of us here, who are still more or less in the vigor of life; while the mother country has been furnished by us with everything that can enable her to depend on her own resources whether for war or for peace. 2.41.3. For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush at the antagonist by whom they have been worsted, or to her subjects to question her title by merit to rule.
4. Aeschines, Letters, 1.178, 2.124, 3.97-3.99 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
5. Dinarchus, Or., 1.98, 1.110 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
6. Aeschines, Or., 1.178, 2.153, 3.97-3.99
7. Demosthenes, Orations, 3.21-3.23, 3.31, 6.31, 8.34, 9.4, 16.3, 18.278, 18.282-18.284, 23.145, 23.188, 23.204-23.206, 60.10
8. Lysias, Orations, 2.20, 2.33, 2.42, 2.44

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschines	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 144
alcibiades	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 144
ancestors,athenian	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
antiphon,anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,and anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,and parabasis	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,and topoi of orators	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,dicaeopolis in	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,on flattering rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,works,acharnians	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
athens,comic vision of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
augustine,of elders	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 147
augustine,of memory	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 147
deception,and comedy	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
deception,association with rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
denigration,in assembly	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
ecclesia	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
elite,ideological agency	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
eubulus,politician	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
eusebia (piety),of ancestors	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
freedom	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
funeral oration,catalogue of exploits	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
gods,goodwill	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
humaneness,and altruism	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
humaneness	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
ideology,constructive function	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
ideology,normative aspect	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
imperialism,athenian attitudes to	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
imperialism,athenian empire	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
loraux,n.,on ideology	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
marathon (battle of)	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
orator,role in ideological practice	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
rhetorical conventions,assembly speeches'	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 228
state funeral for the war dead,discursive parameters	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 64
topoi,in aristophanes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270