Ancient Greek Orations, ca. 1200 BCE – 324 BCE

Ancient Greece produced some of the greatest minds in hisroty. Leaders and thinkers such as Socrates and Pericles left their mark on the world, and many of their ideas are included here in the following speeches.

Titles

His Reply to the Envoys (Achilles)

I in Favor of the Peloponnesian War (432 B.C.) (Pericles)

II on Those Who Died in the War (430 B.C.) (Pericles)

III in Defense of Himself (430 B.C.) (Pericles)

On the Punishment of the Mytileneans (427 B.C.) (Cleon)

I in Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily (414 B.C.) (Alcibiades)

II to the Spartans (413 B.C.) (Alcibiades)

Against the Sicilian Expedition (414 B.C.) (Nicias)

On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders (416 B.C.) (Hermocrates)

Against Eratosthenes (403 B.C.) (Lysias)

I in His Own Defense (399 B.C.) (Socrates)

II on Being Declared Guilty (399 B.C.) (Socrates)

III on Being Condemned to Death (399 B.C.) (Socrates)

On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia (380 B.C.) (Isocrates)

In the Suit Against Dicogenes and Leochares (Isaeus)

I the Second Oration Against Philip (344 B.C.) (Demosthenes)

II on the State of the Chersonesus (342 B.C.) (Demosthenes)

III on the Crown (330 B.C.) (Demosthenes)

Against Ctesiphon; or, on the Crown (330 B.C.) (Aeschines)

Against Demosthenes (324 B.C.) (Dinarchus)