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Headword:
Dêmadês
Adler number: delta,414
Translated headword: Demades
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An Athenian, a rhetor, and a demagogue unscrupulous and fortunate. He had previously been a sailor.[1] He wrote a
Defence to Olympias On the Twelve Years;[2] a
History about Delos and the birth of Leto's children. This man suspended the jurycourts and rhetorical contests.[3] He died under [the regime of] Antipater.[4]
Dêmadês, Athênaios, rhêtôr, kai dêmagôgos panourgos kai eutuchês: proteron nautês ôn. egrapsen Apologismon pros Olumpiada tês heautou dôdekaetias, Historian peri Dêlou kai tês geneseôs tôn Lêtous paidôn. houtos kateluse ta dikastêria kai tous rhêtorikous agônas. teleutai de epi Antipatrou.
Notes:
C4 BC. See generally RE
Demades; NP
Demades; OCD4
Demades; FGrH 227. Identical with [
delta 415]
Demades.
[1] See again
delta 415; this is a distorted way of describing him (and his family) as deriving wealth from shipping.
[2] That is, his influence on Athenian policy-making between c.338 and c.326 BC. (Modern scholars dispute the authenticity of the speech which has been transmitted under this title.)
[3] (Lawsuits, in plain terms.) This sentence should refer to Antipater (next note), and Kiesseling's textual way of achieving it was to change
ou(=tos to
o(/s and insert the material after
*)antipa/trou.
[4] For the Macedonian viceroy Antipater/Antipatros see
alpha 2703,
alpha 2704.
Demades was actually killed (in 319) by his son Cassander/Kassandros.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 23 June 2000@10:58:22.
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