Demosthenes, Speeches 20-22

SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE

This is the twelfth volume in a series of translations of The Oratory of Classical Greece. The aim of the series is to make available primarily for those who do not read Greek up-to-date, accurate, and readable translations with introductions and explanatory notes of all the surviving works and major fragments of the Attic orators of the classical period (ca. 420–320 bc): Aeschines, Andocides, Antiphon, Demosthenes , Dinarchus, Hyperides, Isaeus, Isocrates, Lycurgus, and Lysias. This volume contains speeches from three of Demosthenes’ best known and most important public cases. They mark the beginning of his public career, which he advanced in part by the prosecution of other high-profile public figures, and they established Demosthenes as a major force in Athenian public life. This volume, like the others in the series, has benefited greatly from the careful attention of many at the University of Texas Press, including Director Joanna Hitchcock, Humanities Editor Jim Burr, production editor Lynne Chapman, and copy editor Nancy Moore. As always , they have been a pleasure to work with. —m. g. SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...