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Demosthenes: Death
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[A]fter the disastrous battle in which he ran away like a coward, Demosthenes was chosen to give the funeral oration and dared to praise the courage of the dead. Aeschines asked why should Athens crown a man for virtue and bravery who is a coward and a deserter. How could they present him to the people he made orphans? The theatre of Dionysus should not be used to present a trophy of Athenian defeat, not to mention the miseries of the Thebans, who were driven from their homes because of the bribery of Demosthenes and Persian gold. Aeschines referred to the old Solonian law that cowardice and desertion deserve penalties, and ... he argued it certainly forbids a crown and public ceremonies. Receiving early intelligence from Charidemus of Philip's death, Demosthenes pretended to have a divine dream, and he put on a white robe and crown to celebrate illegally even though his only daughter had died seven days before.
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Demosthenes teaches that all who die in his cult shall serve him in his laboratory and libraries wherein is stored all the Knowledge of the World. He recognises that acquiring the necessary skills, knowledge and experience must take a lifetime and so demand that his initiates be allowed to return to mortality if their deaths be untimely by either resurrection or Divint. Burial customs are usually those common in the area, but some dedicated cultists leave their bodies to science that they may further Alchemy.
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At this time... upon the ill-success which now happened to the Grecians, those of the contrary faction in the commonwealth fell foul upon Demosthenes and took the opportunity to frame several informations and indictments against him. But the people not only acquitted him of these accusations, but continued towards him their former respect, and still invited him, as a man that meant well, to take a part in public affairs. Insomuch that when the bones of those who had been slain at Chaeronea were brought home to be solemnly interred, Demosthenes was the man they chose to make the funeral oration. They did not show, under the misfortunes which befell them, a base or ignoble mind, as Theopompus writes in his exaggerated style, but on the contrary, by the honour and respect paid to their counsellor, they made it appear that they were noway dissatisfied with the counsels he had given them. The speech, therefore, was spoken by Demosthenes. But the subsequent decrees he would not allow to be passed in his own name, but made use of those of his friends, one after another, looking upon his own as unfortunate and inauspicious; till at length he took courage again after the death of Philip, who did not long outlive his victory at Chaeronea.
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