This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles, Pericles, and Socrates, with their most famous (legendary or traditional) orations and speeches. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Preface 6 min 2 Introduction 24 min 3 Achilles' Reply to the Envoys by Homer 10 min 4 Pericles - I. - In Favor of the Peloponnesian War 13 min 5 Pericles - II. - On Those Who Died in the War 17 min 6 Pericles - III. - In Defense of Himself 11 min 7 Cleon - On the Punishment of the Mytileneans 11 min 8 Alcibiades - I. - In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily 11 min 9 Alcibiades - II. - To the Spartans 3 min 10 Nicias - Against the Sicilian Expedition 8 min 11 Hermocrates - On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders 11 min 12 Lysias - Against Eratosthenes 5 min 13 Socrates - I. - In His Own Defense 18 min 14 Socrates - II. - On Being Declared Guilty 8 min 15 Socrates - III. - On Being Condemned to Death 11 min 16 Isocrates - On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia 17 min 17 Isaeus - In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares 13 min 18 Demosthenes - I. - The Second Oration Against Philip 18 min 19 Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 1 19 min 20 Demosthenes - II. - On the State of the Chersonesus, part 2 18 min 21 Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 1 31 min 22 Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 2 23 min 23 Demosthenes - III. - On the Crown, part 3 26 min 24 Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 1 26 min 25 Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 2 29 min 26 Aeschines - Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown, part 3 23 min 27 Dinarchus - Against Demosthenes 18 min
