Antiphon
historical figure · 8 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages · author page · cited 1 time in 1 work
Antiphon of Cephisus · Antiphon the Sophist · Antiphon the orator
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2 expressionsin the texts
Stromata
Athenian orator cited as borrower of the 'second childhood' maxim.
for the man who grows old becomes a child once more," Antiphon the orator says, "For the rearing of the old is like the rearing of children";
When a man took it for an omen that a sow had eaten her piglets, Antiphon, seeing that she had been wasted by hunger through the meanness of the one who fed her, said:
They say also that Antiphon of Rhamnus, son of Sophilus, first found out the discourses of the schools and the rhetorical idioms, and first pleaded for pay, writing a forensic speech for publication, as Diodorus says.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian orator and the principal intellectual architect of the oligarchic revolution, later tried for his life.
But the person who devised the whole business, and the means by which it was brought to this issue, and who for the longest time had given the subject great attention, was Antiphon, a man second to none of the Athenians of his day in point of virtue, and who had proved himself most able to devise measures, and to express his views;
And he himself, too, when the party of the Four Hundred had subsequently fallen, and was severely treated by the commons, appears to me to have made the best defence of all men up to my time, when tried for his life on the subject of this very government, on a charge of having assisted in setting it up.
and Pisander, and Antiphon, and others who were most influential, had before—as soon as they were established in power, and afterwards, when the forces at Samos revolted from them for a democracy—sent members of their body as ambassadors to Lacedaemon, and been very anxious for peace with them, and been engaged in building the fort in what is called
On the Mysteries
A person denounced by Teucrus in the Mysteries information.
Phaedrus, Gniphonides, Isonomus, Hephaestodorus, Cephisodorus, himself, Diognetus, Smindyrides, Philocrates, Antiphon, Teisarchus, Pantacles.
Constitution of the Athenians
One of the chief founders of the Four Hundred oligarchy
The oligarchy, then, was established in this way, in the archonship of Callias, about a hundred years after the expulsion of the tyrants, those chiefly responsible being Pisander, Antiphon, and Theramenes, men both of good birth and reputed to excel in understanding and judgement.
On the Crown
Man accused of promising Philip to burn the Athenian dockyard, later executed.
You all remember Antiphon, the man who was struck off the register, and came back to Athens after promising Philip that he would set fire to the dockyard.
As it was, you put him on the rack and then executed him, and you ought to have done the same to Aeschines.
Apology
Father of Epigenes, present at the trial
and also Antiphon of Cephisus, father of Epigenes.
Hellenica
Athenian who had funded warships during the war and was nonetheless put to death by the Thirty.
And further, when Antiphon, who during the war supplied from his own means two fast-sailing triremes, was put to death by us, I knew that all those who had been zealous in the state’s cause would look upon us with suspicion.
Memorabilia
Antiphon the Sophist, who engages Socrates in three separate conversations across the window, criticizing his poverty, his refusal of payment, and his avoidance of direct political office.
Antiphon came to Socrates with the intention of drawing his companions away from him, and spoke thus in their presence.
How can you suppose that you make politicians of others, when you yourself avoid politics even if you understand them?
he retorted, should I play a more important part in politics by engaging in them alone or by taking pains to turn out as many competent politicians as possible?