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First Philippic

by Demosthenes

Reading #29 ("Anabasis 3", 2025)

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Abstract

Demosthenes urges the Athenians to abandon complacency and take decisive, proactive action against Philip of Macedon, redefining political oratory as a call to collective responsibility rather than reactive debate.

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authors Demosthenes
literary form oration
genres deliberative
subjects rhetoric, civic duty, war, Philip II
period Classical Greece, 4th c. BCE
language Ancient Greek, Attic Greek
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