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