The ancient Greek philosopher Antiphon was a contemporary of Socrates who lived in the fifth century BCE Athens. Antiphon wrote several major works, which have survived only in very fragmentary form. All that is known about these works as well as about Antiphon is included in this study. The material is translated, and its significance assessed in a detailed commentary that addresses the numerous problems raised by the fragmentary material. Antiphon's contribution to the wider history of ideas is addressed in conclusion.

Antiphon the Sophist: The Fragments (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 39)

Politics & Social Sciences

ANTIPHON

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

This volume provides a commentary on the six speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide. This is the first complete English commentary on Antiphon and the first in any language since 1838. The book opens with a substantial introduction to the life and work of Antiphon and the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory. A new Greek text follows. The commentary itself discusses grammatical, stylistic, legal, rhetorical and historical matters.

Antiphon: The Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This is the first in a two-volume edition of Greek orators.
Antiphon of Athens, born in 480 BCE, spent his prime in the great period of Athens but, disliking democracy, was himself an ardent oligarch who with others set up a violent short-lived oligarchy in 411. The restored democracy executed him for treason. He had been a writer of speeches for other people involved in litigation. Of the fifteen surviving works three concern real murder cases. The others are exercises in speech-craft consisting of three tetralogies, each tetralogy comprising four skeleton speeches: accuser's; defendant's; accuser's reply; defendant's counter-reply.
Andocides of Athens, born ca. 440 BCE, disliked the extremes of both democracy and oligarchy. Involved in religious scandal in 415 BCE, he went into exile. After at least two efforts to return, he did so under the amnesty of 403. In 399 he was acquitted on a charge of profaning the Mysteries and in 391–390 took part in an abortive peace embassy to Sparta. Extant speeches are: 'On His Return' (a plea on his second attempt); 'On the Mysteries' (a selfdefence); 'On the Peace with Sparta'. The speech 'Against Alcibiades' (the notorious politician) is suspect.

Minor Attic Orators, Volume I: Antiphon, Andocides (Loeb Classical Library No. 308)

Andocides

Essays & Correspondence

Harvard University Press

Antiphontis Orationes Et Fragmenta, Adiunctis Gorgiae, Antisthenis, Alcidamantis Declamationibus, Ed. F. Blass (Ancient Greek Edition)

History

Europe

Nabu Press

Oratores Attici, Volume 4, part 4 (Ancient Greek Edition)

Orationes Et Fragmenta (Latin Edition)

Gorgias

Orateur et maitre de rhetorique, Antiphon est aussi reste celebre pour son activite politique. Aristocrate convaincu, il est l'un des instigateurs de la revolution oligarchique qui eut lieu a Athenes en 411. Aux cotes de Phrynicos et de Theramene, il participe au renversement de la constitution d'Athenes et a l'instauration du regime des Quatre-Cents. Il tombe avec ce regime: les Quatre-Cents renverses, Antiphon est accuse de trahison et condamne a mort, malgre le brillant discours qu'il prononce devant le peuple d'Athenes et dont Thucydide a conserve la trace. Notre edition regroupe en un volume l'ensemble des discours d'Antiphon ainsi que les fragments d'Antiphon le Sophiste, longtemps confondu avec notre auteur. Les Discours comprennent a la fois les plaidoyers rediges pour des cas reels et les Tetralogies, suite de quatre discours fictifs, a l'usage des futurs orateurs, prononces pour crimes de sang. L'introduction fait le point sur les connaissances relatives a Antiphon et relate l'histoire des editions et de la traduction manuscrite. Chaque texte est precede d'une notice explicative, tandis que des notes accompagnent et eclairent la lecture. L'ouvrage est en outre enrichi d'un index.

Discours. Fragments d'Antiphon le Sophiste. (Collection Des Universites De France) (French and Greek Edition)

Les Belles Lettres

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