109 - [GREEK LITERATURE & ORATORIAL ART] - DEMOSTHENES / Aeschines

[GREEK LITERATURE & ORATORIAL ART] - DEMOSTHENES / Aeschines The Complete Works of Demosthenes and Aeschines, translated into French, with commentary on the speeches and pleadings of these two orators; preceded by a preliminary discourse on eloquence... Angers, Printed by Mame, Father and Son; sold in Paris by Belin, Year XII – 1804, 6 volumes In-8°. Period full calf with grained finish. Smooth spine decorated with a gilded urn motif. Some wear to the bindings. A new edition of this monumental translation, a masterpiece of popularizing Hellenic literature by the eminent Hellenist and rhetorician Abbé Athanase Auger (1734–1792). A sweeping legal, political, and oratorical panorama of classical Athens, this comprehensive work remains one of the most highly regarded sources for studying the oratorical contests between Demosthenes and his great rival Aeschines, particularly regarding the Crown Case. The work is preceded by a comprehensive critical apparatus: a preliminary discourse on eloquence, a summary of the Greek constitution, a treatise on the Athenian judicial system, and a biography of Philip of Macedon. The collation of this edition by Mame is distinguished by the traditional inclusion of an engraved frontispiece and a large fold-out map of ancient Greece bound into Volume 1. References: Brunet, II, 590; Graesse, II, 360