Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive ...

Why is modern thought so influenced by the Greeks? We’ve heard of philosophers from Socrates to Aristotle, whose ideas have ...

Candidates for the degree in Classical Antiquity who intend to be examined in Greek translation create ... and 75 pages of Thucydides) Orators: 80 OCT pages (must include one whole speech each by ...

The Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, one of the founders of Cynicism, is said to have shown the middle finger to visitors to Athens who asked about the celebrated orator Demosthenes and ...