This is a reprint of the classical study by Pickard-Cambridge about Greece's most famous political orator, Demosthenes. It deals with his role in the last struggle of the Greeks for freedom against the Macedonian Empire.

• Prefatory Note
• Chronological Table
• The Youth and Training of Demosthenes
• Greece from 404 to 359
• The Athenian State in the Fourth Century B.C.
• The Beginning of Demosthenes' Career
• The Rise of Philip
• The Olynthian War
• The First Embassy to Philip
• The Second Embassy and the Peace of Philocrates
• The Nominal Peace and the Renewal of the War
• Chæroneia
• After Chæroneia
• Greece in the Absence of Alexander
• The Affair of Harpalus and the Lamian War
• Conclusion