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c. 480—411 bc, Athens
Flourished:
c.480 BCE - 411 BCE
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Antiphon (flourished c. 480—411 bc, Athens) was an orator and statesman, the earliest Athenian known to have taken up rhetoric as a profession. He was a logographos; i.e., a writer of speeches for other men to deliver in their defense in court, a function that was particularly useful in the climate of accusation and counter-accusation that prevailed in Athens at the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War, between Athens and Sparta. As a politician Antiphon was the prime mover in the anti-democratic revolution of the Four Hundred, an oligarchic council set up in 411 bc in an attempt to seize the ...(100 of 381 words)

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