Guilty or Not Guilty ？Demosthenes’ AGAINST ANDROTION

One or the principal interests western civilization has taken over from the Greeks is rhetoric or techniques of oratory. Rhetoric was a product of democratic society in which the power of speech played an in important part not only in political and litigious scenes but also in social and intellectual life. The present writer examines how Demosthenes, who as an orator and stetesman controlled the fate of Athens, exploited and developed the art of persuasion in one of his earliest public speeches AGAINST ANDROTION