See also:HYPEREIDES (c. 390-322 B.c.)
, one of the ten See also:Attic orators, was the son of Glaucippus, of the deme of Collytus
.
Having studied under Isocrates, he began See also:life as a writer of speeches for the courts, and in 36o he prosecuted Autocles, a See also:general charged with See also:treason in See also:Thrace (frags
.
55-65, See also:Blass)
.
At the
See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the. so-called " Social See also:War " (358-355) he accused Aristophon, then one of the most influential men at See also:Athens,
of malpractices (frags
.
40-44, Blass), and impeached Philocrates (343) for high treason: From the See also:peace of 346 to 324 See also:Hypereides supported See also:Demosthenes in the struggle against Macedon; but in the affair of Harpalus he was one of the ten public prosecutors of Demosthenes, and on the See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile of his former See also:leader he became the See also:head of the patriotic party (324)
.
After the See also:death of See also:Alexander, he was the See also:chief See also:promoter of the Lamian war against See also:Antipater and Craterus
..
After the decisive defeat at Crannon
(322), Hypereides and the other orators, whose surrender was demandbd by Antipater, were condemned to death by the
Athenian partisans of See also:Macedonia
.
Hypereides fled to See also:Aegina, but Antipater's emissaries dragged him from the See also:temple of See also:Aeacus, where he had taken See also:refuge, and put him to death; according to others, he was taken before Antipater at Athens or Cleonae
.
His See also:body was afterwards removed to Athens for See also:burial
.
Hypereides was an ardent pursuer of " the beautiful," which in his time generally meant See also:pleasure and luxury
.
His See also:temper was easy-going and humorous; and hence, though in his development of the periodic See also:sentence he followed Isocrates, the essential tendencies of his See also:style are those of See also:Lysias, whom he surpassed, however, in the richness of his vocabulary and in the variety of his See also:powers
.
His diction was See also:plain and forcible, though he occasionally indulged in See also:long See also:compound words probably borrowed from the See also:Middle See also:Comedy, with which, and with the everyday life of his time, he was in full sympathy
.
His See also:composition was See also:simple
.
He was specially distinguished for subtlety of expression, See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and wit, as well as for tact in approaching his See also:case andhandling his subject See also:matter
.
See also:Sir R
.
C
.
See also:Jebb sums up the See also:criticism of pseudo-See also:Longinus (De sublimitate, 34) in the phrase—" Hypereides was the See also:Sheridan of Athens."
Seventy-seven speeches were attributed to Hypereides, of which twenty-five were regarded as See also:spurious even by See also:ancient critics
.
It is said that a MS. of most of the speeches was in existence in the 16th See also:century in the library of See also:Matthias See also:Corvinus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hungary, at Ofen, but was destroyed at the See also:capture of the See also:city by the See also:Turks in 1526
.
Only a few fragments were known until comparatively See also:recent times
.
In 1847 large fragments of his speeches Against Demosthenes (see above) and For See also:Lycophron (incidentally interesting as elucidating the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:marriage processions and other details of Athenian life, and the Athenian See also:government of See also:Lemnos), and the whole of the For Euxenippus (c
.
33o, a See also:locus classicus on efoayyAim or See also:state prosecutions), were found in a See also:tomb at See also:Thebes in See also:Egypt, and in 1856 a considerable portion of a Xbyos tr(rt¢ios, a Funeral Oration over Leosthenes and his comrades who had fallen in the Lamian war, the best extant specimen of epideictic See also:oratory (see See also:BABINGTON, See also:CHURCHILL)
.
Towards the end of the century further discoveries were made of the conclusion of the speech Against Philippides (dealing with a ypacki 1rapan (ov, or See also:indictment for the proposal of an unconstitutional measure, arising out of the disputes of the Macedonian and See also:anti-Macedonian parties at Athens), and of the whole of the Against Athenogenes (a perfumer accused of See also:fraud in the See also:sale of his business)
.
These have been edited by F
.
G
.
See also:Kenyon (1893)
.
An important speech that is lost is the Deliacus (frags
.
67-75, Blass) on the See also:presidency of the Delian temple claimed by both Athens and See also:Delos, which was adjudged by the Amphictyons to Athens
.
On Hypereides generally see pseudo-See also:Plutarch, Decent oratorum vitae; F
.
Blass, Attische Beredsamkeit, iii.; R
.
C
.
Jebb, Attic Orators, ii
.
381
.
A full See also:list of See also:editions and articles is given in F
.
Blass, Hyperidis orations See also:sex cum ceterarum fragmentis (1894, Teubner See also:series), to which may be added I
.
See also:Bassi, Le Quattro Orazioni di Iperide (introduction and notes, 1888), and J
.
E
.
See also:Sandys in Classical See also:Review (See also:January 1895) (a review of the editions of Kenyon and Blass)
.
For the discourse against Athenogenes see H
.
Weil, Etudes sur l'antiquite grecque (1900)
.
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