Antiphon the Sophist
480-411 B.C.
Greek orator and statesman who first proposed the method of exhaustion for squaring the circle. Antiphon suggested that a regular polygon be inscribed in a circle, an...
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Antiphon(C. 480–411 Bce)
Antiphon was an Athenian sophist, author of Truth, Concord, and—if identical with the same person as Antiphon of Rhamnus—three Tetralogies and many court ...
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In the following essay, Sealey argues that Antiphon's Tetralogies do not provide conclusive evidence about the nature of Athenian legal practice.
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The text of the speeches of Antiphon depen...
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In the following essay, Lattimore focuses on several mysteries arising in Antiphon's fifth oration, regarding a thorny murder case.
Antiphon, in his fifth oration, relates that c. 422-413 b....
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In the following essay, Pendrick argues that Antiphon the Sophist and Antiphon the politician and logographer were two different individuals.
Despite a century and more of scholarly debate, the &#x...
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In the following essay, Gagarin examines Antiphon's use of evidentiary and argumentative proofs in the trial of law cases.
In discussing the revolution of the 400 in 411 b. c.., Thucydides (...
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In the following essay, Gagarin argues that, according to ancient tradition, Antiphon the Sophist and Antiphon of Rhamnus were one and the same person.
Among many Antiphons known from antiquity, tw...
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In the following essay, Carawan presents an analysis comparing the methods of argument used in the Tetralogies attributed to Antiphon with court arguments he is actually known to have made.
The Tet...
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In the following essay, Dunn argues that the attribution of a fragment defining the nature of time to Antiphon the Sophist is valid.
The simplest and clearest formulation of Antiphon's under...
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In the following essay, Plant addresses the influence of Antiphon and Gorgias on the rhetorical techniques used by Thucydides.
In recent years, there has been considerable debate about the reliabil...
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In the following essay, Schmitz analyzes the rhetorical strategies Antiphon and other orators used to convince judges of the accuracy of their arguments in representing reality.
When Tzvetan Todoro...
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Antiphon the Sophist
Antiphon (C. 480–411 Bce)
Critical Essay by R. Sealey
