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This volume provides the first commentary in English on the Philippics since 1907 and promises to encourage more study of this essential Greek orator. In addition to full commentary on Philippic I, the volume includes essays that outline Philippic II and III, set them in their historical context, and emphasize the differences between these later speeches and the first.

This volume provides the first commentary in English on what is arguably the finest deliberative speech from antiquity. In addition to a full commentary on Philippic I, this volume includes essays that outline Philippics II and III, set them in their historical context, and emphasize the differences between these later speeches and the first.