Antiphon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Antiphon , c.479-411 BC, 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 BC When they fell, Antiphon was among the first to be executed before Alcibiades returned.
Bibliography: See R. K. Sprague, The Older Sophists (1972); Antiphon and Lysias (tr. by M. Edwards and S. Usher, 1985).
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