By Michael Gagarin

Gagarin demonstrates persuasively that Antiphon the logographer is the same with the Antiphon who made highbrow contributions on extra summary themes. --Mervin R. Dilts, Professor of Classics, long island college Antiphon used to be a fifth-century Athenian highbrow (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the career of speechwriting whereas serving as an influential and hugely sought-out adviser to litigants within the Athenian courts. 3 of his speeches are preserved, including 3 units of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is typically doubted. Fragments additionally live to tell the tale of highbrow treatises on topics together with justice, legislations, and nature (physis), that are frequently attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. have been those Antiphons fairly one and an analogous person, endowed with a wide-ranging brain able to take on lots of the various highbrow pursuits of his day? via an research of these kinds of writings, this publication convincingly argues that they have been composed by means of a unmarried person, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin units shut readings of person works inside a much wider dialogue of the fifth-century Athenian highbrow weather and the philosophical ferment referred to as the sophistic flow. this allows him to illustrate the general coherence of Antiphon's pursuits and writings and to teach how he was once a pivotal determine among the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. furthermore, Gagarin's argument permits us to re-evaluate the paintings of the sophists as an entire, on the way to now be obvious as essentially attracted to emblems (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, instead of of their ordinary position as foils for Plato.