Demosthenes

Greatest Greek orator. Was an opponent of Philip of Macedon, against whom, between 352 and 340 b. c., he delivered his 11 Phillipics. It being proposed to give him crown, iEschines opposed this was the cause of the noblest speech erf Demosthenes, that 0?i the Crown. Born, b. c., 385; died, 322.