Demosthenes
democracy's defender
$63.50
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2026
Summary
The tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination
In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a town in central Greece, a base from which he could march on Athens. In the fierce debates about how to respond to the rising threat in the north, Demosthenes, the greatest orator of his day, convinced the Athenian Assembly to confront Philip on the field of battle. Though t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300269383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300269382 |
| Author: | James Romm |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Ancient Lives |
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“A tale as relevant as ever.”—Unseen Histories“James Romm’s lively and informative biography of a great Athenian statesman is at once an insightful biography and a dramatic retelling of Athens’s doomed struggle with a rising imperial power.”—Josiah Ober, coauthor of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives
About The Author
James Romm
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He is the author of numerous books, including Demetrius: Sacker of Cities and Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece.
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