Cecil Wooten: 3 books
A Commentary on Demosthenes' Philippic I
With Rhetorical Analyses of Philippics II and III
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Philippic I, delivered between 351 B.C. - 350 B.C., was the first speech by a prominent politician against the growing power of Philip II of Macedon. Along with the other Philippics of Demosthenes', it is arguably one of the finest deliberative speeches from antiquity. The present volume provides...
by Cecil W. Wooten
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cecil Wooten has produced the first translation into any modern langauage of a key treatise of the ancient world. He provides a faithful English translation of Hermogenes' analysis based on a reliable Greek text established by Rabe at the beginning of this century and includes a substantial scholarly...
Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model
The Rhetoric of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Although Cicero's Phillipics are his most mature speeches, they have received little attention as works of oratory. On the other hand, scholars in this century have considered Cicero's attitudes toward and dependence on Demosthenes to be an issue of importance. Cecil Wooten brings together these two...