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Andocides

Andocides

c. 440 BCE–c. 390 BCE · Athens

Andocides (c. 440 - c. 390 BCE) was an Athenian politician and orator, one of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators." He became entangled in the notorious religious scandals of 415 BCE on the eve of Athens' expedition to Sicily, and several of his surviving speeches concern his own efforts to defend himself and return from exile. Written in a plain, unpolished style, they are valued more for their vivid historical detail than for their rhetorical artistry.

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Stop 1 of 1440 BCE–390 BCELived

AthensAttica (Greece)

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Attic orator of Athens.

About Athens

Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.

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