This Handbook aims to serve as an up-to-date point of reference for a wide readership approaching Demosthenes in his guises as both orator and politician. Not only does it offer introductions to the man and his work, it also tracks the reactions that each has received from his lifetime to this day and explains the many contextual issues that are necessary to understand them both. The volume thus addresses both Demosthenes’ role as a source on his time and the influence his contemporary social and historical context had on his rhetoric, making a valuable contribution to our knowledge of this key figure and his afterlife which will be of interest to scholars and students of Athenian history, society, rhetoric, politics, and law.