Tusculan Disputations · Character
Demosthenes
Athenian orator and statesman; exemplar of eloquence and resistance to Macedon.
minor
Also known as Demosthenes
First appearance: tusculan disputations
Demosthenes shows up with force in Book IV: On Other Perturbations of the Mind. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Cited alongside Themistocles as a figure whose intellectual pursuits are mischaracterized as lust.
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