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Roman bust of Hyperides (photograph by Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Roman bust of Hyperides (photograph by Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Hyperides

390–322 BC · Orator

Demosthenes’ ally against Macedon and later his accuser. His speeches were lost until papyri found in Egypt in the nineteenth century gave some of them back.

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6 works

Six speeches recovered from papyri, in Greek beside English.

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