Abstract
D EMOSTHENES' REPUTATION is suffering one of its periodic reversals. Earlier in this century Georges Clemenceau described Demosthenes as a burning furnace of irresistible powers, a man who would have saved his country had it consented to be saved. 1 A similar eulogistic attitude pervades Werner Jaeger's Sather Lectures, which appeared shortly before the beginning of the Second World War.2 Since then, however, Demosthenes has been out of favour. What has been written about him has been critical of
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