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Aeschines
Aeschines
c. 389 BCE–c. 314 BCE · Athens
Aeschines (c. 389 - c. 314 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and orator, one of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators." He is best known as the great political rival of Demosthenes, with whom he clashed over how Athens should respond to the rising power of Philip of Macedon. Three of his speeches survive, and together with Demosthenes' replies they preserve one of the most famous courtroom and political duels of the ancient world.
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Stop 1 of 1389 BCE–314 BCELived
AthensAttica (Greece)
What they did here
Athenian orator, rival of Demosthenes.
About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Isocrates
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Aeschines’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Aeschines’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.