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Demosthenes

Demosthenes

384 BCE–322 BCE · Athens

The greatest of the Attic orators, famed for the Philippics urging Athens to resist Philip of Macedon.

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Stop 1 of 1384 BCE–322 BCELived

AthensAttica (Greece)

What they did here

Athens' greatest orator and statesman.

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, Antisthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, Alcidamas

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