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Antiphon the Athenian
Michael Gagarin
其他書名
Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
出版University of Texas Press, 2002-07-15
主題Literary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalHistory / Ancient / Greece
ISBN02927284179780292728417
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sBXhDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Antiphon was a 5th-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the 5th-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement.