By Michael Gagarin
Gagarin demonstrates persuasively that Antiphon the logographer is similar with the Antiphon who made highbrow contributions on extra summary themes. --Mervin R. Dilts, Professor of Classics, manhattan college Antiphon used to be a fifth-century Athenian highbrow (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the career of speechwriting whereas serving as an influential and hugely sought-out adviser to litigants within the Athenian courts. 3 of his speeches are preserved, including 3 units of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is typically doubted. Fragments additionally live on of highbrow treatises on matters together with justice, legislations, and nature (physis), that are usually attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. have been those Antiphons particularly one and an analogous person, endowed with a wide-ranging brain able to take on lots of the assorted highbrow pursuits of his day? via an research of these kind of writings, this e-book convincingly argues that they have been composed through a unmarried person, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin units shut readings of person works inside a much wider dialogue of the fifth-century Athenian highbrow weather and the philosophical ferment often called the sophistic circulate. this allows him to illustrate the final coherence of Antiphon's pursuits and writings and to teach how he used to be a pivotal determine among the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. moreover, Gagarin's argument permits us to re-examine the paintings of the sophists as an entire, as a way to now be obvious as basically attracted to emblems (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, instead of of their ordinary position as foils for Plato.
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40 Logos has (as we have noted) a broad range of meanings, but this causes relatively little difficulty in interpreting this expression, since on any view the meanings “argument” and “speech” are probably both present. 41 Whether the weaker logos speaks more unjustly than the stronger logos in the actual debate is questionable; Aristophanes gives a cleverly mixed picture of both. ” Nor did they necessarily wish to make the weaker logos prevail. Only Aristophanes speaks of the weaker logos winning, and this outcome is clearly motivated by his plot.
28 Callimachus was not especially careful about assigning authorship and apparently included many spurious works among those of the orators he catalogued,29 but the inclusion of treatises like Truth together with speeches in his collection of Antiphon is notable. All the other works he included in 26 Wooten’s translation (1987: 122 –23) wrongly removes any doubt from Hermogenes’ text (contrast Morrison 1972: 114 –15).
28 Callimachus was not especially careful about assigning authorship and apparently included many spurious works among those of the orators he catalogued,29 but the inclusion of treatises like Truth together with speeches in his collection of Antiphon is notable. All the other works he included in 26 Wooten’s translation (1987: 122 –23) wrongly removes any doubt from Hermogenes’ text (contrast Morrison 1972: 114 –15).