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Antiphon was a statesman who took up rhetoric as a profession. He was active in political affairs in Athens, and, as a zealous supporter of the oligarchical party, was largely responsible for the establishment of the Four Hundred in 411 (see Theramenes); upon restoration of the democracy shortly afterwards, he was accused of treason and condemned to death. [1]
The name Antiphon the Sophist (/ ˈ æ n t ə ˌ f ɒ n,-ən /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιφῶν) is used to refer to the writer of several Sophistic treatises. He probably lived in Athens in the last two decades of the 5th century BC, but almost nothing is known of his life.
Antiphon (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιφῶν) was a man of ancient Greece who was the youngest brother of the philosopher Plato.Born between 423 BCE and 413 BCE [1] [2] to Plato's mother Perictione and her second husband, Pyrilampes, he is referenced in the dialogue Parmenides, in which he is said to have given up philosophy to devote most of his time to horses.
Antiphon's speech compares the plaintiff's stepmother to Clytemnestra, and his murdered father to Agamemnon, shown in this painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. "Against the Stepmother" is Antiphon's only surviving speech for the prosecution. [12] The plaintiff accuses his stepmother of having murdered his father while he was a child. [13]
After a Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge, Hobbs became Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is a specialist in Ancient Greek philosophy with a particular interest in ethics , political theory , and moral psychology .
Greek philologist Ioannis Kalitsounakis believes that the philosopher was born on May 26 or 27, 427 BC, while Jonathan Barnes regards 428 BC as year of Plato's birth. [10] For her part, Debra Nails asserts that the philosopher was born in 424/423 BC. [8] Robin Waterfield estimates "he was born at the earliest in 424/3". [11]
The first person in recorded history to contemplate a timeless universe was the Ancient Greek philosopher Antiphon, [3] who in the 5th century B.C. held that time was a man-made measure, rather than a real thing or substance. The same opinion was held by another Ancient Greek philosopher in the 2nd century B.C., Kritolaos. [4]
Antiphon (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιφῶν) was an author of ancient Greece, who wrote an account of men distinguished for virtue (περὶ τῶν ἐν ἀρετή πρωτευσάντων), one of whom was Pythagoras.