User:Jonathan D12/Third Philippic

Notes

Overall Cicero and Quintilian on the Style of Demosthenes
 * Rallying cry against Macedonia
 * Anti-Macedonia faction?
 * Told my Demosthenes, a popular Athenian politician
 * Third Philippic seen as the best, oration wise
 * A Philippic is a sort of rant or tirade, usually in a negative light
 * Previously tried to reach out to the Persians. Now, mostly rallying the Athenian world for survival against Phillip II


 * "Cicero and Quintilian were Román critics of oratory who knew Greek well. What interests me in this paper is what they have to say about the style of Demosthenes, whom they both acknowledge to have been the most effective of the Greek orators." -pp 177
 * "In the Orator, however, produced during a period of political inactivity under the dictatorship of Julius Caesar, Cicero holds up Demosthenes over and over again as the model for all orators to follow." -178