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Bust of Aeschines, British Museum (CC BY 2.5)
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Author

Aeschines

c. 389–314 BC · Orator

An actor and clerk who rose to lead the party of peace with Macedon, and Demosthenes’ great rival. Beaten by On the Crown, he left Athens and taught rhetoric on Rhodes.

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His three speeches, Against Timarchus, On the Embassy and Against Ctesiphon, in Greek beside English.

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