ANTIPHON, Athenian Orator

ănˈtĭfŏn, –fən, c.479–411 b.c., Athenian orator. He rarely spoke in public but wrote defenses for others to speak. Of his 15 extant orations 3 were for use in court, the rest probably for the instruction of his pupils. A few fragments of other speeches survive. Antiphon did much to advance Attic prose writing. His position in politics was with the conservative aristocrats, and he was instrumental in setting up the Four Hundred in 411 b.c. When they fell, Antiphon was among the first to be executed before Alcibiades returned.

See R. K. Sprague, The Older Sophists (1972); Antiphon and Lysias (tr. by M. Edwards and S. Usher, 1985).

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American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources
Book by Bernard K. Duffy, Halford R. Ryan; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: Orators--United States--Biography, Political Oratory--United States--History--20th Century, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American--History And Criticism
...anaphora. Memoria referred to the orators ability to remember the oration...bearing--Cicero cautioned orators not to expectorate in public...writers," or speech writers. Antiphon and Lysias plied this trade...their clients to use in the Athenian courts. Like their modern...
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A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life
Book by William Stearns Davis; Biblo and Tannen, 1960
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Social Life And Customs
...fraction of the whole Athenian people. There are...thus available, for Athenian juries are very large...1 Athenian opinion was on the...mere animal fear. Antiphon the orator speaks of how truth...on the part of the Athenians. 2 The odd unit was...
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The Unknown Socrates: Translations, with Introductions and Notes, of Four Important Documents in the Late Antique Reception of Socrates the Athenian
Book by William M. Calder III, Bernhard Huss, Marc Mastrangelo, R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma; Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002
...took hemlock from the Athenians with forthrightness...criticized him, as did Antiphon the Soothsayer/4 just...Otherwise unknown. " Antiphon the soothsayer is a...this tradition from Antiphon the orator (c. 480-411 BC...
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Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators
Book by Edwin Carawan; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Intellectual Life, Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Oratory, Ancient, Political Oratory--Greece--Athens, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism
...1990), The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon; CP 85: 22-32 (Ch. 8 in...1996), The Torture of Slaves in Athenian Law; CP 91: 1-18. -- (1997...125-34. -- (2002), Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice...
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The Classical Athenian Democracy
Book by David Stockton; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Democracy--History
...Androtion and the politician-orator Antiphon. Androtion had written his...to exculpate him. As for Antiphon, he was a leading member...before 8. 68. 2 . Since Antiphon did not plead guilty, and...survived. Like all ancient orators, he was a master of the art...
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Murder in Sophistopolis: Paradox and Probability in the First Tetralogy
Journal article by David C. Hoffman; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 45, 2008
Subjects: Criminal investigation, Murder, Pollution
...chronology of Antiphons speeches. Classics...1980). Antiphon: A study in...1985). Greek orators I: Antiphon...of slaves in Athenian law. Classical...been written by Antiphon (1984, p...had been two Antiphons at work in fifth...sophist and one an orator, in Hermogenes...imply that the Antiphon who appears...Antiphon than the Athenian Antiphon who...


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Splitting Images: Communication in Classical Athens
Magazine article by Edith Hall; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
Subjects: Athens, Greece--History, Communication in politics--History, Democracy--History, Oratory--History
...to curtail. But Antiphon may have been exceptional...public funerals of Athenians who had died in...reputation, and the orator Demosthenes uses...a resume of the Athenians victories over the...publicly the values of Athenian democracy -- equality...
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Murder Most Foul: Robert Garland Asks What Murder Meant to the Apparently Bloodthirsty Greeks and Romans
Magazine article by Robert Garland; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004
Subjects: Murder--Social aspects
...comes mainly from the orators, whose services as...identical to our own. Athenian law permitted the killing...homicide was intended. Athenian law did not for the...contemporary the speechwriter Antiphon. In one, the jury...sizeable percentage of the Athenian populace could be expected...loose. Very likely the Athenians, while paying lip...notable victim being the orator and politician Cicero...


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Antiphon , Athenian Orator
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANTIPHON , Athenian orator an tifon, f n, c.479 411 b.c...fragments of other speeches survive. Antiphon did much to advance Attic prose writing...Hundred in 411 b.c. When they fell, Antiphon was among the first to be executed...


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