Aeschines on Alexander

In the summer of 330, the Athenian politician Aeschines attacked his rival Demosthenes for the failure of the latter's anti-Macedonian policy. His speech is known as Against Ctesiphon.

M.M. Austin has translated the sections 132-134.

A contemporary view of Alexander

[132] What strange and unexpected event has not occurred in our time? The life we have lived is no ordinary human one, but we were born to be an object of wonder to posterity. The Persian king, who dug a canal through Mount Athos,^note[Aeschines refers to th