ABSTRACT
For affairs at Athens during the reign of Alexander the Great (336-323) we depend heavily on oratory and epigraphy. Among the speeches in the corpus of Demosthenes, orations 17 (On the Treaty with Alexander: spurious), and 18 (On the Crown) are of particular importance. Aeschines 3, Against Ctesiphon, is the prosecution speech to which Demosthenes’ On the Crown responds. Most of the preserved speeches of three other orators, Hypereides, Lycurgus, and Deinarchus, were delivered in Athens during this period. Other useful literary sources include Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander; books 17 and 18 of Diodorus’ Library of History; and Plutarch’s Lives of Demosthenes, Phocion, and Alexander.
