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Demosthenes' Philippics

In Our Time

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What's the Relationship Between Writing a Speech Out and a Live Debate?

Demosthenes' speeches are very polished and they're long. But it sounds as if actually real debate would have involved a lot more kind of heckling and back and forth. I think we need to imagine a much more of a rough and tumble debate than necessarily these long polished speeches give us an impression of. He was probably quite good at that because of some evidence, says Plutarch.

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