On Halonnesus
Athens · -342
H
Hegesippus
Hegesippus
c. 390 BCE · Athens
Hegesippus was an Athenian orator and statesman of the 4th century BCE, a contemporary and ally of Demosthenes in opposing the expansion of Philip II of Macedon. He is associated with the surviving speech 'On Halonnesus,' traditionally transmitted among the works of Demosthenes but generally attributed by scholars to Hegesippus. He represents the anti-Macedonian faction in Athenian politics of his era.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→
✦
Stop 1 of 1
AthensAttica (Greece)
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
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, Andocides
In the same place & time
✦
Sages whose lives overlapped with Hegesippus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus
The world in their lifetime
✦
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Hegesippus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.