Demosthenes
Demosthenes was a Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. He idealized his city and strove throughout his life to restore Athens’ supremacy and motivate his compatriots against Philip II of Macedon. He took his own life, to avoid being arrested by Antipater’s confidant Archias of Thurii. The Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace recognised...