The library of Hyperides
Across 5 of Hyperides’s 6 works in the library, the harvest finds 25 named sources — 25 citations in all. The library holds 2 of them; the rest are the corpus’s wanted list. In the other direction, 1 work in the library quotes Hyperides back — 1 citation.
most drawn on Demosthenes · Lycurgus
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2 neutral 5 refuted 1 endorsed Of the 25 citations Hyperides makes, 5 argue against the text cited.
the sources most drawn on
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Demosthenes 1 citation
You denied having done so and drew up a challenge, which you laid before the people in the form of a decree entrusting the matter on which you were accused to the council of the Areopagus.
against demosthenes · the specific decree the speaker relies on to bind Demosthenes to the Areopagus's findings ¶ -
Lycurgus 1 neutral 1 citation
Among these was recorded a statement of Lycurgus, who claimed to have been told by the relatives that during the wedding of Charippus to the woman I followed and tried to persuade her to reserve herself and have nothing to do with Charippus.
in defence of lycophron · identified and reported as part of the charges, without yet being endorsed or refuted in this paragraph ¶
named once
23 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.
- In Defence of Lycophron
- The jurors' oath and law requiring an equal hearing for prosecution and defence · The law requiring a public charge before the Thesmothetae · The written impeachment (eisangelia) filed against Lycophron
- Against Philippides
- the decree honoring the presidents · the law forbidding disparagement of Harmodius and Aristogeiton · the law on repeat false witness convictions · the law on the conduct of presidents in office
- Against Athenogenes
- Law against making false statements in the market · Law forbidding metics from moving away during wartime · Law making a slave's owner liable for the slave's offenses · Law on disclosure of a slave's physical disability at sale · Law on the legitimacy of children of a lawfully betrothed wife · Law on the validity of wills · The Troezenians' decree honoring Athens · The written agreement (contract of sale) between the speaker and Athenogenes
- In Defence of Euxenippus
- Hyperides's impeachment (indictment) of Philocrates · Polyeuctus's Indictment (impeachment speech) against Euxenippus · Polyeuctus's decree concerning the mountain of Acamantis and Hippothoontis · The Athenian Impeachment Law (Eisangelia Law) · The Jurors' Oath (Heliastic Oath) · The Oracle of Zeus at Dodona (command to embellish the statue of Dione)
- Against Demosthenes
- the Areopagus's report on the Harpalus money · the law prescribing a tenfold fine for bribery
cited by
1 · all from one work1 work in the library quotes Hyperides — 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 Hyperides is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 endorsed 1 citation
Hyperides's orations are explicitly recommended as preferred reading.
For the powers of these are simpler and their structures easier to grasp, and the beauty of their words in no way falls short of those others.
oration 88 ¶