Demosthenes (383-322 BC) - Athenian statesman and the most famous of Greek
orators. He was leader of a patriotic party opposing Philip of Macedon.
The Oration on the Crown (330 BC) - An oration in defense of Ctesiphon, an
Athenian citizen who proposed that Demosthenes should receive a crown for
his extraordinary merit. Aeschines, Demosthenes' political rival, attacked
Demosthenes in his "Oration against Ctesiphon." "The Oration on the Crown,"
Demosthenes' response, is regarded as the finest work of ancient eloquence.
