Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists

by Michael Gagarin

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Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2003

Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722222
• ISBN13: 9780292722224
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"