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Headword:
*)antifw=n
Adler number: alpha,2745
Translated headword: Antiphon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of
Sophilus; of
Athens, of the deme
Rhamnus.[1] No one is recognised as his teacher;[2] nevertheless, he was the leader in the judicial style [of oratory] after
Gorgias.[3] He is said to have been the teacher of
Thucydides.[4] He used to be called Nestor.[5]
*)antifw=n, *sofi/lou, *)aqhnai=os, tw=n dh/mwn *(ramnou/sios: dida/skalos de\ au)tou= ou)dei\s proginw/sketai: a)ll' o(/mws h)=rce tou= dikanikou= xarakth=ros meta\ *gorgi/an. le/getai de\ kai\ *qoukudi/dou gene/sqai dida/skalos. e)kalei=to de\ *ne/stwr.
Notes:
See generally RE Antiphon(14); NP Antiphon(4); OCD(4) Antiphon(1). Opinion is divided over whether he is to be identified with the sophist [
alpha 2744] Antiphon.
[1] cf. Harpocration s.v.
[2] Not in the sources used here, evidently; contrast [
Plutarch],
Lives of the Ten Orators 832B-C, where his teacher is his own father.
[3] [
gamma 388]
Gorgias.
[4] An inference from the praise of Antiphon in
Thucydides 8.68.
[5] The "archetypal wise old man" (OCD s.v.) in epic poetry.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 June 2000@11:42:46.
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