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Against Ctesiphon
The collective Greek world invoked in questions of peace, alliance, leadership, and common safety.
and the people left the assembly with substantially this supposition, that peace would be made (that, however, it was better not to discuss an alliance, because of our summons to the Greeks), and that the peace would be shared by all the Greeks.
And our city, the common refuge of the Greeks, to which in former days used to come the embassies of all Hellas, each city in turn to find safety with us, our city is now no longer contending for the leadership of Hellas, but from this time on for the soil of the fatherland.
and secondly, they sought to secure to the city the good-will of the Greeks, by the provision for a general congress, in order that in case the agreements should be violated, we might not enter upon the war unprepared and alone—the misfortune that actually came upon us, thanks to Demosthenes.
Answer to Philip’s Letter
Other Greek communities whom Athens should draw into alliance by deeds rather than words.
for all words divorced from action are futile, especially words from Athenian lips, in proportion as we are reputed to be more ready of speech than all other Greeks.
On the Chersonese
The broader Greek communities affected by Philip's expansion and Athens' inaction.
Because you are indifferent to these advantages and allow them to be taken from you, Philip is prosperous and powerful and formidable to Greeks and barbarians alike, while you are deserted and humiliated, famous for your well-stocked markets, but in provision for your proper needs, contemptible.
To know and realize all this, to shake off our outrageous and incurable slothfulness, to contribute funds, to call upon our allies, and to provide and arrange for the permanent upkeep of our existing army, so that just as Philip has a force ready to attack and enslave all the Greek states, so you may have one ready to protect and assist them all.
And yet, men of Athens, it is just this that rouses my indignation, that some of you should be distressed at the prospect of the plunder of your wealth, when you are quite competent to protect it and to punish any offender, but that you are not distressed at the sight of Philip thus plundering every Greek state in turn, the more so as he is plundering them to injure you.
On the Crown
The wider Greek political world whose division, corruption, and freedom are central to Demosthenes' defense.
Well, I pass by those successes which Philip achieved and maintained before I became a politician and a public speaker, as I do not think that they concern me.
Yet if I had really intrigued with Philip to stop a Panhellenic coalition, it was your business not to hold your peace, but to cry aloud, to protest, to inform the people.
Further, out of many spheres of public activity I chose Hellenic affairs as my province, and therefore I am justified in taking Hellenic policy as the basis of my demonstration.
Third Philippic
The wider community of Greek poleis and peoples threatened by Philip.
Yet the Greeks see all this and suffer it.
And it is not only his outrages on Greece that go unavenged, but even the wrongs which each suffers separately.
And we Greeks see and hear all this, and yet we do not send embassies to one another and express our indignation.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Ancient Greek city-states cited alongside Rome as evidence of fictitious kinship admixture.
Whether we look to the Greek States, or to Rome, or to the Teutonic aristocracies in Ditmarsh which furnished Niebuhr with so many valuable illustrations, or to the Celtic clan associations, or to that strange social organisation of the Sclavonic Russians and Poles which has only lately attracted notice, everywhere we discover traces of passages in their history when men of alien descent were admi …
Aegineticus
The collective body of Greek city-states, cited as uniquely unanimous in upholding the law of testamentary adoption.
and lastly, the law, which supports the will, a law that in the opinion of all Greeks is regarded as wisely made.
Of my statement the best proof is this—although the Greek states differ in opinion about many other enactments, they are of one accord concerning this one.