The library of Antiphon
Across 5 of Antiphon’s 6 works in the library, the harvest finds 13 named sources — 13 citations in all. Not one of those sources stands in the library; every one of them is on the corpus’s wanted list. In the other direction, 1 work in the library quotes Antiphon back — 1 citation.
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1 refuted 1 endorsed Of the 13 citations Antiphon makes, 1 argues against the text it cites.
named once
13 sources · 5 worksEach of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.
- Against the Stepmother for Poisoning
- the ancestral homicide law of Athens · the litigant's sworn oath (the defendant's oath)
- The Second Tetralogy
- The Homicide Law (forbidding the taking of life, whether wrongfully or otherwise, and excluding a slayer from forbidden places)
- The Third Tetralogy
- the (unnamed) Athenian law on homicide
- On the murder of Herodes
- Ancestral law on the treatment of slaves who murder their masters · Homicide law of Athens governing open-air trial and exclusion of accused murderers from the Agora · Law concerning malefactors (thieves and footpads) · Law on release upon sureties for resident aliens accused of malefaction · Prosecutor's preliminary oath (diomosia) required in homicide trials · Provision requiring Athenian consent before an allied state may inflict a death sentence · Right of a homicide defendant to depart into exile after his first speech
- On the Choreutes
- the law of the ban on those charged with homicide · the laws concerning trials for murder
cited by
1 · all from one work1 work in the library quotes Antiphon — 1 citation, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Antiphon is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.