Demades

Demades (c. 380 BC; † around 318 BC) was a Greek orator and statesman in Athens.

Life

Demades was talented, quick-witted and full of wit and, although without higher education, of eloquence, but unprincipled and venal. Of humble origin, he served in previous years as a rower, but soon jumped to the rival of Demosthenes up against which it occurred repeatedly, no need to follow a certain policy itself.

In the battle of Chaeronea 338 BC Macedonian fall into captivity, he gained the favor of Philip II and led to his and the rest of the Athenian prisoners release, but was also won by rich gifts for the Macedonian interest. After Philip's death, he succeeded in communion with Phocion to avert the vengeance of Alexander the Great of Athens. He also secured the favor of the king and used the same to defray the great expense to which labor-time required its lush lifestyle. Several times he pulled his corruption and his luxury significant fines and even the atimia to; of the latter, however, gave birth to him, the Athenians, as they needed his to an embassy to Antipater, in order to obtain from it the withdrawal of the Macedonian garrison from Munychia. But Antipater, informed by the collected letters of treacherous machinations of Demades against his person, executed him with his son Demeas (319 BC or 318 BC). The fragment of a speech (reprinted in " oratores Attici ", Vol 3, Berl., 1823 by Immanuel Bekker ) that will result from it, is probably not genuine. See Benedict Heinrich L' Hardy, De Demade oratore Athenian ( Berl. 1834).

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• Rhetoricians of antiquity
• Greek ( Ancient )
• Born in the 4th century BC
• Died in the 4th century BC
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