The first ever biography of Demosthenes written in English for a popular audience, set against the rich backdrop of late classical Greece and Macedonia

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• List of Illustrations and Maps


• Demosthenes' Life: The Main Events


• Speech Numbers and Titles


• Quotations and Abbreviations


• Chapter 1. Preamble: "Politicians and Heroes"


• Chapter 2. Demosthenes, Son of Demosthenes


• Chapter 3. Greece and the Awakening of Macedonia


• Chapter 4. Into the Public Eye


• Chapter 5. The Aspiring Politician


• Chapter 6. Swaying the Assembly


• Chapter 7. An Uneasy Peace


• Chapter 8. Resisting Philip


• Chapter 9. "Speeches Like Soldiers"


• Chapter 10. The End of Greek Freedom


• Chapter 11. "For the Conqueror, Death"


• Chapter 12. Demosthenes and Alexander the Great


• Chapter 13. The Crown Trial


• Chapter 14. Decline and Fall


• Chapter 15. Poison from the Pen


• Appendix: Ancient Coinage and Months of the Attic Year


• Bibliography


• Index

Ian Worthington is Curators' Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri and author of By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire.