Demosthenes' Philippics (In Our Time)
351 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that became a byword for fierce attacks on political opponents. It was in the 4th century BC, in Athens, that Demosthenes delivered these speeches against the tyrant Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, when Philip appeared a growing threat to Athens and its allies and Demosthenes feared his fellow citizens were set on appeasement.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 351 BCE
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)