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Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
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Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Gagarin, Michael


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Antiphon was a 5th-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 is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the 5th-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement.

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  • Title Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
  • Author Gagarin, Michael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages Book, 236 pp
  • Publisher University of Texas Press
  • Date 2002-07
  • ISBN 9780292728417
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