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Dinarchus

Dinarchus

c. 360 BCE–c. 290 BCE · Athens

Dinarchus (c. 360 - c. 290 BCE) was the last of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators." Originally from Corinth, he settled in Athens as a resident foreigner and made his living writing speeches for others to deliver in court. His surviving speeches date from the famous corruption trials connected with the fugitive Macedonian treasurer Harpalus, and his style was regarded in antiquity as derivative of greater predecessors such as Demosthenes.

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AthensAttica (Greece)

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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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Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope

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