/dɪˈmɒs.θəniːz/
.
‘greek’ –>
Δημοσθένης / Dēmosthénēs
.
‘attic greek’ –>
[dɛːmosˈtʰenɛːs]
.
“du MAHS tha nees”
.
🥀☠️-the faithfully departed-☠️🥀
*date of birth*
‘*place of birth*
*date of death*
“age at death”
“cause of death”
.
(‘384 BC’ – ’12 october 322 BC’)
.
*’greek statesman’*
*’orator’ of ‘ancient athens’*
.
(his ‘orations’ constitute a significant expression of ‘contemporary athenian intellectual prowess’ and provide an insight into the ‘politics’ + ‘culture’ of ‘ancient greece’ during the ‘4th century BC’)
(‘demosthenes’ learned ‘rhetoric’ by studying the ‘speeches’ of previous great ‘orators’)
(he delivered his first ‘judicial speeches’ at ‘age 20’, in which he argued effectively to gain from his ‘guardians’ what was left of his ‘inheritance’)
(for a time, ‘demosthenes’ made his living as a ‘professional speechwriter’ (aka ‘logographer’) and a ‘lawyer’, writing speeches for use in ‘private legal suits’)
(‘demosthenes’ grew interested in ‘politics’ during his time as a ‘logographer’, and in ‘354 BC’ he gave his ‘first public political speeches’)
(he went on to devote his ‘most productive years’ to opposing macedon’s ‘expansion’)
(he idealized his ‘city’ and strove throughout his life to restore athens’ ‘supremacy’ and motivate his ‘compatriots’ against “(‘philip II’ (of ‘macedon’))
(he sought to preserve his city’s ‘freedom’ and to establish an alliance against ‘macedon’, in an unsuccessful attempt to impede philip’s plans to expand his influence southward by conquering all the other ‘greek states’)
(after philip’s death, ‘demosthenes’ played a leading part in his city’s uprising against the new ‘king of macedonia’ (aka ‘alexander the great’))
*DA DAH!!!*
(however, his efforts failed and the ‘revolt’ was met with a ‘harsh macedonian reaction’)
(to prevent a similar ‘revolt’ against his own rule, alexander’s successor in this region (‘antipater’) sent his men to track ‘demosthenes’ down)
(‘demosthenes’ took his own life, in order to avoid being arrested by ‘archias’ (of ‘thurii’), antipater’s ‘confidant’)
“this is what you’ll get if you mess with us…”
(but if you must)
(the alexandrian canon (compiled by ‘aristophanes’ (of ‘byzantium’) and ‘aristarchus’ (of ‘samothrace’) recognized ‘demosthenes’ as 1 of the 10 greatest attic ‘orators’ + ‘logographers’)
–
‘longinus’ likened ‘demosthenes’ to a ‘blazing thunderbolt’, and argued that he “perfected to the ‘utmost’ the tone of…
‘lofty speech’
‘living passions’
‘copiousness’
‘readiness’
‘speed’
.
(‘quintilian’ extolled him as lex orandi (“the standard of oratory”), and ‘cicero’ said about him that inter omnis unus excellat (“he stands alone among all the orators”), and he also acclaimed him as “the perfect orator” who ‘lacked nothing’)
.
.
*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
.
.
.
.
.
💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
.
.
*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
.
.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥