Hyperides — Wellsprings

Hyperides

c. 390 BCE–c. 322 BCE · Athens

Hyperides (c. 390 – 322 BCE) was an Athenian orator and statesman, conventionally counted among the canonical Ten Attic Orators. Reportedly a pupil of Isocrates and a contemporary of Demosthenes, he began his career as a professional speechwriter (logographos) and prosecutor in the Athenian courts before becoming a leading figure in the anti-Macedonian faction of Athenian politics. He supported resistance to Philip II, and after the death of Alexander helped instigate the Lamian War against Antipater; following Athens' defeat at Crannon he fled, was captured, and was executed in 322 BCE. His surviving speeches, recovered largely from papyri in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, include forensic and political orations and are noted for their relatively plain, fluent style.

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What they did here

Attic orator, ally of Demosthenes.

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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In the same place & time

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In the same tradition

Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Lycurgus, Hegesippus

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