Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- EDITIONS AND AUTHORITIES
- Contents
- CORRIGENDA
- ANNALS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I ANTIPHON.—LIFE
- CHAPTER II ANTIPHON.—STYLE
- CHAPTER III ANTIPHON.—WORKS
- CHAPTER IV ANDOKIDES.—LIFE
- CHAPTER V ANDOKIDES.—STYLE
- CHAPTER VI ANDOKIDES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER VII LYSIAS.—LIFE
- CHAPTER VIII LYSIAS.—STYLE
- CHAPTER IX LYSIAS.—WORKS
- CHAPTER X LYSIAS.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XI LYSIAS.—WORKS
CHAPTER V - ANDOKIDES.—STYLE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- EDITIONS AND AUTHORITIES
- Contents
- CORRIGENDA
- ANNALS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I ANTIPHON.—LIFE
- CHAPTER II ANTIPHON.—STYLE
- CHAPTER III ANTIPHON.—WORKS
- CHAPTER IV ANDOKIDES.—LIFE
- CHAPTER V ANDOKIDES.—STYLE
- CHAPTER VI ANDOKIDES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER VII LYSIAS.—LIFE
- CHAPTER VIII LYSIAS.—STYLE
- CHAPTER IX LYSIAS.—WORKS
- CHAPTER X LYSIAS.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XI LYSIAS.—WORKS
Summary
Andokides differs in one important respect from all the other Attic orators of the canon. He is not an artist. Each of the rest represents some theory, more or less definite, of eloquence as an art; and is distinguished, not merely by a faculty, but by certain technical merits, the result of labour directed to certain points in accordance with that theory. Among these experts Andokides is an amateur. In the course of an eventful life he spoke with ability and success on some occasions of great moment and great difficulty. But he brought to these efforts the minimum of rhetorical training. He relied almost wholly on his native wit and on a rough, but shrewd, knowledge of men.
This accounts for the comparatively slight attention paid to Andokides by the ancient rhetoricians and critics. Dionysios mentions him only twice; once, where he remarks that Thucydides used a peculiar dialect, which is not employed by ‘Andokides, Antiphon, or Lysias;’ again, where he says that Lysias ia the standard for contemporary Attic, ‘as may be judged from the speeches of Andokides, Kritias and many others.’ Both these notices recognise Andokides as an authority for the idiom of his own day; and it is evident that he had a philological interest for the critic. On the other hand it is clear that Dionysios discovered in him no striking power; for Andokides does not occur in his long list of men foremost in the various departments of oratory. Quintilian names him only in one slighting allusion.
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- Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos , pp. 88 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010