ABSTRACT
Of the seventeen ‘symbouleutic’ (advisory) speeches or dmgoriai that have come down to us in the Demosthenic corpus, Philippic 4 (10), Answer to Philip’s Letter (11) and On Organisation (13) are, in my opinion, spurious and the creations of later ‘forgers’, who have incorporated genuine Demosthenic material in the speeches to give them an air of authenticity. On Halonnesus (7) and On the Treaty with Alexander (17) are genuine political speeches, but wrongly attributed to Demosthenes, with On Halonnesus probably belonging to the violently anti-Macedonian Hegesippus, and On the Treaty with Alexander to either Hegesippus or Hyperides, the leader of the most radical anti-Macedonian faction at Athens after the defeat of Chaeronea.
