Hyperides
Hyperides (389–322 BC),prominent Athenian statesman, rated by the ancients second only to Demosthenes amongst the canonical Ten Orators. He studied rhetoric under Isocrates and began his career by writing speeches for others (i.e. he was a logographos). His political career opened with an attack on Aristophon in 363/2. There were other, perhaps numerous, such prosecutions of leading figures, the most notable being his successful prosecution of Philocrates in 343 which heralded his future bitter opposition to Macedon (see Philip II), and after the battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) he assumed a leading role. Immediately after the action in which 1,000 Athenians had died and 2,000 were captured, he sought to provide replacements by making metics citizens and freeing slaves; he was himself duly indicted for this unconstitutional measure but it...
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