attic orators

Demetrius was the last among the Attic orators worthy of the name, after which the activity went into a decline.

Cicero, who heard him, puts him almost on a level with the Attic orators.

The Attic orators make numerous references to this.

One of the ten Attic Orators according to the Alexandrian canon.

Against Eratosthenes is a speech by Lysias, one of the ten Attic orators.

He directed his attention especially to the Attic orators, and learnt all the orations of Demosthenes by heart.

From Attic Orators, vol.

To prove his point he explains that he has translated a debate between the two best Attic orators, Aeschines and Demosthenes.

The work of the Attic orators inspired the later rhetorical movement of Atticism, an approach to speech composition emphasizing a simple rather than ornate style.

Minor Attic Orators, II, Lycurgus.

The ten Attic orators were considered the greatest orators and logographers of the classical era (5th-4th century BCE).

Formal Attic of Attic orators, Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, imitated by the Atticists or Neo-Attic writers.

Funeral Oration is a speech by Lysias, one of the "Canon of Ten" Attic orators (Speech 2 in Lamb's translation).

The oration Against Leocrates, which was delivered in 330 BC, was first printed by Aldus Manutius in his edition of the Attic orators.

The Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace recognized Demosthenes as one of the ten greatest Attic orators and logographers.

Baiter's strong point was textual criticism, applied chiefly to Cicero and the Attic orators; he was very successful in finding the best manuscript authorities, and his collations were made with the greatest accuracy.

He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

Atticism was portrayed as a return to Classical methods after what was perceived as the pretentious style of the Hellenistic, Sophist rhetoric and called for a return to the approaches of the Attic orators.

After the removal of the Thirty Tyrants from power, Lysias, one of the ten Attic orators, wrote Against Eratosthenes as an indictment against Eratosthenes for the murder of his brother, Polemarchus.

Attic Orators, Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle wrote in Attic proper, Thucydides in Old Attic, the dramatists in an artificial poetic language while the Attic Comedy contains several vernacular elements.

Cicero attempts to explain why his view of oratorical style reflects true Atticism and is better than that of the Roman Atticists "who would confine the orator to the simplicity and artlessness of the early Attic orators."

For the details of Attic law we have to depend on ex parte statements in the speeches of the Attic orators, and we are sometimes able to check those statements by the trustworthy, but often imperfect, aid of inscriptions.

Though he left no handbooks, his speeches ("Antidosis" and "Against the Sophists" are most relevant to students of rhetoric) became models of oratory (he was one of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators") and keys to his entire educational program.