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Headword:
*dhma/dhs
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]
Greek Original:*dhma/dhs, *)aqhnai=os, r(h/twr, kai\ dhmagwgo\s panou=rgos kai\ eu)tuxh/s: pro/teron nau/ths w)/n. e)/grayen *)apologismo\n pro\s *)olumpia/da th=s e(autou= dwdekaeti/as, *(istori/an peri\ *dh/lou kai\ th=s gene/sews tw=n *lhtou=s pai/dwn. ou(=tos kate/luse ta\ dikasth/ria kai\ tou\s r(htorikou\s a)gw=nas. teleuta=| de\ e)pi\ *)antipa/trou.
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.
Keywords: biography; chronology; economics; ethics; geography; history; law; mythology; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 23 June 2000@10:58:22.
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