Demades
c. 380 BCE–c. 319 BCE · Athens
Demades was an Athenian orator and politician of the 4th century BCE, known as a powerful improvising speaker who favored accommodation with Macedon after Athens' defeat at Chaeronea. He played a prominent role in Athenian affairs in the age of Philip II and Alexander, before falling from favor and being put to death. No speeches genuinely by him survive, though his ready wit was long remembered.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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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, Lysias, Isocrates, Alcidamas
Across the traditions, in Athens at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Demades’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus, Aeschines
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Demades’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Archytas of Tarentum· 435 BCE–347 BCE
- Aristippus of Cyrene· 435 BCE–356 BCE
- Eudoxus of Cnidus· 390 BCE–337 BCE
- Philip of Opus· 385 BCE–
- Demosthenes· 384 BCE–322 BCE
- Aristotle· 384 BCE–322 BCE
- Philip II of Macedon· 382 BCE–336 BCE
- Aristoxenus· 375 BCE–315 BCE
- Theophrastus· 371 BCE–287 BCE
- Crates of Thebes· 365 BCE–285 BCE
- Dinarchus· 360 BCE–290 BCE
- Hecataeus of Abdera· 360 BCE–290 BCE
- Dicaearchus of Messana· 360 BCE–285 BCE
- Pyrrho· 360 BCE–270 BCE
- Demetrius of Phaleron· 350 BCE–280 BCE
- Menander· 342 BCE–290 BCE
- Epicurus· 341 BCE–270 BCE
- Crantor· 340 BCE–275 BCE
- Herophilus of Chalcedon· 335 BCE–280 BCE
- Strato of Lampsacus· 335 BCE–269 BCE
- Zeno of Citium· 334 BCE–262 BCE
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus· 331 BCE–278 BCE
- Hermarchus of Mytilene· 325 BCE–250 BCE
- Lycophron· 320 BCE–250 BCE
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Works
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