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Aeschines
Aeschines
389 BCE–314 BCE · Athens
Aeschines (c. 389 - c. 314 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and orator, one of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators." He is best known as the great political rival of Demosthenes, with whom he clashed over how Athens should respond to the rising power of Philip of Macedon. Three of his speeches survive, and together with Demosthenes' replies they preserve one of the most famous courtroom and political duels of the ancient world.
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Stop 1 of 1389 BCE–314 BCELived
AthensAttica (Greece)
What they did here
Athenian orator, rival of Demosthenes.
About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Aristophanes, Antisthenes, Lysias, Isocrates