Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists

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

Gagarin, Michael

Paperback

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0292722222
ISBN13: 9780292722224
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jul 1 2002
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 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?

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All