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Greek: Oratory & Rhetoric

The speeches of Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, Aeschines and the other Attic orators, alongside the later eloquence of Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides, the emperor Julian, and the critical essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Longinus. Every text below is a complete parsing reader: click any word for its lemma, morphology, and full entry from the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon.

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On FiguresPseudo-Aelius Herodian
ProgymnasmataAelius Theon
LettersAeneas of Gaza
Against CtesiphonAeschines
Against TimarchusAeschines
On the EmbassyAeschines
LettersPseudo-Aeschines
On the Sophists and OdysseusAlcidamas
On Rhetorical Starting-Points (Epitome)Alexander son of Numenius
On Figures of Thought and SpeechAlexander son of Numenius
LettersPseudo-Amasis
Rhetoric to AlexanderAnaximenes of Lampsacus (attributed)
Against AlcibiadesAndocides
On His ReturnAndocides
On the MysteriesAndocides
On the Peace with SpartaAndocides
FragmentsAndocides
Declamation of Paris to the Trojan SenateAnonymous
Epitome of Rhetoric (Excerpt)Anonymous
Excerpts on the Art of RhetoricAnonymous
Exposition of RhetoricAnonymous
Introduction to the Art of RhetoricAnonymous
Notes on Hermogenes' On InventionAnonymous
On FiguresAnonymous
On Figures of SpeechAnonymous
On Magnificence (Doric Papyrus)Anonymous
On Poetic TropesAnonymous
On SynecdocheAnonymous
On the Eight Parts of Rhetorical SpeechAnonymous
On the Four Parts of the Perfect SpeechAnonymous
On TropesAnonymous
Prolegomena to Aphthonius' ProgymnasmataAnonymous
Prolegomena to Hermogenes' On InventionAnonymous
Prolegomena to RhetoricAnonymous
Prolegomena to the Art of RhetoricAnonymous
Prolegomena to the ProgymnasmataAnonymous
Rhetorical Problems on the StaseisAnonymous
Synopsis of Hermogenes' On Types of Style, Book 1Anonymous
Art of Political Speech (Anonymous Seguerianus)Anonymous
Epitome of RhetoricAnonymous
On Figures of Speech (to Ignatius)Anonymous
ProgymnasmataAnonymous
Against the Stepmother for PoisoningAntiphon
On the ChoreutesAntiphon
On the murder of HerodesAntiphon
The First TetralogyAntiphon
The Second TetralogyAntiphon
The Third TetralogyAntiphon
FragmentsAntiphon
On the Revolution (Fragments)Antiphon
Selected FragmentsAntiphon
Ajax and OdysseusAntisthenes
ProgymnasmataAphthonius
Letter to FrontoAppianus of Alexandria
Art of RhetoricApsines
On Figured ProblemsApsines (attributed)
Ars RhetoricaAristides, Aelius
Orationes 1Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 10Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 11Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 12Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 13Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 14Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 15Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 16Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 17Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 18Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 19Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 2Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 20Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 21Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 22Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 23Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 24Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 25Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 26Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 27Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 28Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 29Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 3Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 30Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 31Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 32Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 33Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 34Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 35Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 36Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 37Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 38Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 39Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 4Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 40Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 41Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 42Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 43Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 44Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 45Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 46Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 47Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 48Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 5Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 50Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 51Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 52Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 53Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 54Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 55Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 6Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 7Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 8Aristides, Aelius
Orationes 9Aristides, Aelius
On a Remark in PassingAristides, Aelius
Rhetorical FragmentsAriston of Ceos (attributed)
RhetoricAristotle
LettersBrutus (attributed)
FragmentsCallinicus of Petra
TestimoniaCallinicus of Petra
Art of RhetoricCassius Longinus
ExcerptsCassius Longinus
Letter to PerianderPseudo-Chilon
Orations and DeclamationsChoricius of Gaza
On the Differentiation of IssuesCyrus (rhetorician)
On the Twelve YearsDemades
TestimoniaDemades
Fragments and TestimoniaDemades
Epistolary TypesPseudo-Demetrius of Phalerum
Epistolary Types (Spurious Appendix)Pseudo-Demetrius of Phalerum
On StylePseudo-Demetrius of Phalerum
Against AndrotionDemosthenes
Against ApaturiusDemosthenes
Against Aphobus IDemosthenes
Against Aphobus IIDemosthenes
Against Aphobus IIIDemosthenes
Against AristocratesDemosthenes
Against Aristogeiton IDemosthenes
Against Aristogeiton IIDemosthenes
Against Boeotus IDemosthenes
Against Boeotus IIDemosthenes
Against CalliclesDemosthenes
Against CononDemosthenes
Against DionysodorusDemosthenes
Against EubulidesDemosthenes
Against Evergus and MnesibulusDemosthenes
Against LacritusDemosthenes
Against LeocharesDemosthenes
Against LeptinesDemosthenes
Against MacartatusDemosthenes
Against MeidiasDemosthenes
Against Nausimachus and XenopeithesDemosthenes
Against OlympiodorusDemosthenes
Against Onetor IDemosthenes
Against Onetor IIDemosthenes
Against PantaenetusDemosthenes
Against PhaenippusDemosthenes
Against PhormioDemosthenes
Against SpudiasDemosthenes
Against Stephanus IDemosthenes
Against Stephanus IIDemosthenes
Against TheocrinesDemosthenes
Against TimocratesDemosthenes
Against ZenothemisDemosthenes
Answer to Philip’s LetterDemosthenes
Apollodorus Against CallippusDemosthenes
Apollodorus Against NicostratusDemosthenes
Apollodorus Against PolyclesDemosthenes
Apollodorus Against TimotheusDemosthenes
ExordiaDemosthenes
First OlynthiacDemosthenes
First PhilippicDemosthenes
For PhormioDemosthenes
For the Liberty of the RhodiansDemosthenes
For the People of MegalopolisDemosthenes
Fourth PhilippicDemosthenes
LettersDemosthenes
On HalonnesusDemosthenes
On OrganizationDemosthenes
On the ChersoneseDemosthenes
On the CrownDemosthenes
On the False EmbassyDemosthenes
On the Navy-BoardsDemosthenes
On the PeaceDemosthenes
On the Treaty with AlexanderDemosthenes
On the Trierarchic CrownDemosthenes
Philip’s LetterDemosthenes
Second OlynthiacDemosthenes
Second PhilippicDemosthenes
The Erotic EssayDemosthenes
The Funeral SpeechDemosthenes
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against NeaeraDemosthenes
Third OlynthiacDemosthenes
Third PhilippicDemosthenes
FragmentsDemosthenes
Against AristogitonDinarchus
Against DemosthenesDinarchus
Against PhiloclesDinarchus
Fragments of Uncertain PlacementDinarchus
Fragments of Lost SpeechesDinarchus
OrationesDio Chrysostom
LettersDio Chrysostom (attributed)
LettersDionysius of Antioch
Ad AmmaeumDionysius of Halicarnassus
De Compositione VerborumDionysius of Halicarnassus
De DemostheneDionysius of Halicarnassus
De DinarchoDionysius of Halicarnassus
De IsaeoDionysius of Halicarnassus
De IsocrateDionysius of Halicarnassus
De LysiaDionysius of Halicarnassus
De ThucydideDionysius of Halicarnassus
De Thucydidis idiomatibusDionysius of Halicarnassus
De antiquis oratoribusDionysius of Halicarnassus
Epistula ad Pompeium GeminumDionysius of Halicarnassus
Libri secundi de antiquis oratoribus reliquiaeDionysius of Halicarnassus
De Imitatione (Fragments)Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Ars RhetoricaPseudo-Dionysius of Halicarnassus
LettersPseudo-Euripides
Birthday Letter to Domitia LucillaFronto
Greek Letter to Appian and EroticusFronto
Greek Letters to Herodes Atticus and Domitia LucillaFronto
Letter to Appius Apollonides (Ad Amicos)Fronto
TestimoniaGorgias of Leontini
Testimonia (Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.9.2)Gorgias of Leontini
FragmentsGorgias of Leontini
DeclamationHadrian of Tyre
TestimoniaHermogenes
On IssuesHermogenes
On the Method of ForcefulnessPseudo-Hermogenes
On InventionPseudo-Hermogenes
On Types of StyleHermogenes
ProgymnasmataHermogenes (attributed)
On the ConstitutionHerodes Atticus (attributed)
Fragments of Uncertain OrationsHimerius
Declamations and OrationsHimerius
Oration Fragment (P.Oslo inv. 1478)Himerius (attributed)
Against AthenogenesHyperides
Against DemosthenesHyperides
Against PhilippidesHyperides
Funeral OrationHyperides
In Defence of EuxenippusHyperides
In Defence of LycophronHyperides
FragmentsHyperides
On Behalf of EuphiletusIsaeus
On The Estate Of PyrrhusIsaeus
On The Estate of ApollodorusIsaeus
On The Estate of AristarchusIsaeus
On The Estate of CironIsaeus
On The Estate of CleonymusIsaeus
On the Estate of AstyphilusIsaeus
On the Estate of DicaeogenesIsaeus
On the Estate of HagniasIsaeus
On the Estate of MeneclesIsaeus
On the Estate of NicostratusIsaeus
On the Estate of PhiloctemonIsaeus
FragmentsIsaeus
AegineticusIsocrates
Against CallimachusIsocrates
Against EuthynusIsocrates
Against LochitesIsocrates
Against the SophistsIsocrates
AntidosisIsocrates
ArchidamusIsocrates
AreopagiticusIsocrates
BusirisIsocrates
Concerning the Team of HorsesIsocrates
EvagorasIsocrates
HelenIsocrates
Nicocles or the CypriansIsocrates
On the PeaceIsocrates
PanathenaicusIsocrates
PanegyricusIsocrates
PlataicusIsocrates
To AlexanderIsocrates
To AntipaterIsocrates
To ArchidamusIsocrates
To DemonicusIsocrates
To DionysiusIsocrates
To NicoclesIsocrates
To PhilipIsocrates
To Philip, IIsocrates
To Philip, IIIsocrates
To TimotheusIsocrates
To the Children of JasonIsocrates
To the Rulers of the MytilenaeansIsocrates
TrapeziticusIsocrates
FragmentsIsocrates
Prolegomena to the ProgymnasmataJohn Argyropoulos
A Consolation to Himself Upon the Departure of the Excellent SallustJulian, Emperor of Rome
EpistolaeJulian, Emperor of Rome
Hymn to King Helios Dedicated to SallustJulian, Emperor of Rome
Hymn to the Mother of the GodsJulian, Emperor of Rome
Letter to Themistius the PhilosopherJulian, Emperor of Rome
Letter to the Senate and the People of AthensJulian, Emperor of Rome
MisopogonJulian, Emperor of Rome
Panegyric in Honor of the Emperor ConstantinusJulian, Emperor of Rome
Panegyric on the Empress EusebiaJulian, Emperor of Rome
The CaesarsJulian, Emperor of Rome
The Heroic Deeds of the Emperor Constantius, or on KingshipJulian, Emperor of Rome
To the Cynic HeracleiosJulian, Emperor of Rome
To the Uneducated CynicsJulian, Emperor of Rome
Κατὰ ΓαλιλαίωνJulian, Emperor of Rome
FragmentJulian, Emperor of Rome
That Rhetoric Is Subject to Metrical FeetLachares
PoliticusLesbonax of Mytilene
Protrepticus ALesbonax of Mytilene
Protrepticus BLesbonax of Mytilene
Declamation 3 (Embassy of Menelaus): TheoremaLibanius
Epistolary StylesPseudo-Libanius
Spurious LettersPseudo-Libanius
Wrongly Ascribed DeclamationsPseudo-Libanius
Hypotheses to the Speeches of DemosthenesLibanius
LettersLibanius
OrationsLibanius
DeclamationsLibanius
ProgymnasmataLibanius
Fragments and SpuriaLibanius (attributed)
On the SublimeLonginus
CharidemusPseudo-Lucian of Samosata
In Praise of DemosthenesPseudo-Lucian of Samosata
AmoresPseudo-Lucian of Samosata
Against LeocratesLycurgus
FragmentsLycurgus
Accusation of CalumnyLysias
Against AgoratusLysias
Against Alcibiades 1Lysias
Against Alcibiades 2Lysias
Against AndocidesLysias
Against DiogeitonLysias
Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoysLysias
Against EratosthenesLysias
Against ErgoclesLysias
Against NicomachusLysias
Against PancleonLysias
Against PhilocratesLysias
Against PhilonLysias
Against SimonLysias
Against The Corn-DealersLysias
Against The Subversion of the Ancestral ConstitutionLysias
Against Theomnestus 1Lysias
Against Theomnestus 2Lysias
Defense Against A Charge Of Taking BribesLysias
Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the DemocracyLysias
For CalliasLysias
For PolystratusLysias
For The SoldierLysias
Funeral OrationLysias
In Defense of MantitheusLysias
Olympic OrationLysias
On A Wound By PremeditationLysias
On The Property Of EratonLysias
On The Refusal Of A PensionLysias
On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of NiciasLysias
On the Murder of EratosthenesLysias
On the Olive StumpLysias
On the Property of AristophanesLysias
On the Scrutiny of EvandrosLysias
Selected FragmentsLysias
FragmentsLysias
On Insoluble ObjectionsMaximus of Byzantium (attributed)
Philosophical OrationsMaximus of Tyre
On Epideictic SpeechesMenander Rhetor
Division of Epideictic SpeechesMenander Rhetor (attributed)
On EpicheiremesMinucianus the Younger
Letter to his Nephew Mithridates (Preface to the Letters of Brutus)Mithridates (attributed)
Progymnasmata: Excerpts from Codex AcNicolaus of Myra
Progymnasmata: On Comparison (Manuscript Excerpt)Nicolaus of Myra
ProgymnasmataNicolaus of Myra
LettersPhilip II of Macedon (attributed)
On the Seven Wonders of the WorldPseudo-Philo of Byzantium
On FiguresPhoebammon
DeclamationsPolemon of Laodicea
On FiguresPolybius of Sardis
Art of RhetoricRufus of Perinthus (attributed)
Scholia on Hermogenes' On Issues (Syrianus, Sopater, Marcellinus)Scholia
Narrations and EthopoeiaeSeverus of Alexandria
Division of QuestionsSopater the Rhetor
Commentary on Hermogenes' On IssuesSopater the Rhetor
Prolegomena to AristidesSopater the Rhetor (attributed)
CatastasesSynesius of Cyrene
In Praise of BaldnessSynesius of Cyrene
On KingshipSynesius of Cyrene
LettersSynesius of Cyrene
Commentary on Hermogenes' On IdeasSyrianus
Commentary on Hermogenes' On IssuesSyrianus
Prolegomena to Hermogenes' On IdeasSyrianus (attributed)
Consular Oration for JovianThemistius
Decennial Oration, or On the Speeches Appropriate to an EmperorThemistius
Embassy Speech on Behalf of Constantinople, Delivered in RomeThemistius
Embassy Speech to the Emperor TheodosiusThemistius
Exhortation to the Young ValentinianThemistius
Funeral Oration for His FatherThemistius
On His Appointment to the Urban PrefectureThemistius
On Philanthropy, or ConstantiusThemistius
On Presiding over the SenateThemistius
On the Emperor's Love of ListeningThemistius
On the Peace of ValensThemistius
On the Philanthropy of the Emperor TheodosiusThemistius
On Those Who Fell into Misfortune under ValensThemistius
Philopolis: Argument (Theoria) of Oration 4Themistius
Quinquennial Oration (Oration 8)Themistius
Reply to Those Who Blamed Him for Accepting Office (Oration 34)Themistius
Reply to Those Who Misinterpreted 'The Sophist' (Oration 29)Themistius
Should One Farm? (Oration 30)Themistius
Thanksgiving for the Peace and the Consulship of Saturninus (Oration 16)Themistius
The Brother-Lovers, or On Philanthropy (Oration 6)Themistius
The Lover, or On Royal BeautyThemistius
The Sophist (Oration 23)Themistius
To Constantius, That the Emperor Is Above All a PhilosopherThemistius
To the Emperor Constantius (Oration 4)Themistius
To the Man Who Demanded an Impromptu Speech (Oration 25)Themistius
To Theodosius: Which Is the Most Royal of the Virtues (Oration 15)Themistius
The Examiner, or The Philosopher (Oration 21)Themistius
Correspondence with Constantine VIITheodore of Cyzicus
FragmentsThrasymachus
TestimoniaThrasymachus
On the Figures in DemosthenesTiberius (rhetorician)
Prolegomena to Hermogenes' RhetoricTroilus
Prolegomena to RhetoricTrophonius (sophist)

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