Antiphon
historical figure · 9 works · 12 mentions · 19 anchored passages · author page
Antiphon of Cephisus · Antiphon the Sophist · Antiphon the orator
spoken of as
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.
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.
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 so they despatched Antiphon, Phrynichus, and ten others with all speed, (for they were afraid of what was going on both at home and at Samos,) with instructions to make terms with the Lacedaemonians in any way whatever that was at all tolerable.
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.
As it was, you put him on the rack and then executed him, and you ought to have done the same to Aeschines.
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.
Apology
Father of Epigenes, present at the trial
and also Antiphon of Cephisus, father of Epigenes.
Parmenides
Half-brother of Adeimantus and Glaucon who, as a youth, memorized the conversation as told to him by Pythodorus and recites it for Cephalus.
Antiphon.
Thereupon we started, and we found Antiphon at home, giving a smith an order to make a bridle.
Antiphon said that Pythodorus told him that when Zeno said this he himself and Antisthenes and the rest begged Parmenides to show his meaning by an example and not to refuse.
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.
In another conversation with Socrates Antiphon said:
but wise you cannot be, since your knowledge is not worth anything.
Socrates, I supposed that philosophy must add to one’s store of happiness.