Antiphon — Wellsprings

Antiphon

c. 480 BCE–c. 411 BCE · Athens

Antiphon (c. 480 - 411 BCE) was the earliest of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators" whose works survive. An Athenian intellectual and speechwriter active in the late fifth century BCE, he composed courtroom speeches, including sets of model speeches for and against imagined homicide cases. He was also a leading figure in the short-lived oligarchic coup of 411 BCE, after which he was tried and executed.

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Stop 1 of 1480 BCE–411 BCELived

AthensAttica (Greece)

What they did here

Earliest of the Attic orators.

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

Aeschylus, Themistocles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Antiphon’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

In the same tradition

Aeschylus, Themistocles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus, Gorgias of Leontini, Euripides, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Antiphon’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.