On the Mysteries
Athens · -390
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Andocides
Andocides
c. 440 BCE–c. 390 BCE · Athens
Andocides (c. 440 - c. 390 BCE) was an Athenian politician and orator, one of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators." He became entangled in the notorious religious scandals of 415 BCE on the eve of Athens' expedition to Sicily, and several of his surviving speeches concern his own efforts to defend himself and return from exile. Written in a plain, unpolished style, they are valued more for their vivid historical detail than for their rhetorical artistry.
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Stop 1 of 1440 BCE–390 BCELived
AthensAttica (Greece)
What they did here
Attic orator of Athens.
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
Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus, Gorgias of Leontini, Euripides, Antiphon
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Andocides’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus, Gorgias of Leontini, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Andocides’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works(3)
On the Peace with Sparta [attributed]
Athens · -390
On His Return
Athens · -390