Attic Greek — Distribution of Greek dialects in the classical period.[1] Western group … Wikipedia
Attic (disambiguation) — The word attic has various meanings:*An attic is an area above a house. *Attic (always capitalised) is an adjective for something or someone coming from or associated with Attica or Athens, for example: **The Attic dialect of the Greek language.… … Wikipedia
Demosthenes — For other historical and fictional personages named Demosthenes, see Demosthenes (disambiguation). Demosthenes Bust of Demosthenes (Louvre, Paris, France) Born … Wikipedia
De Optimo Genere Oratorum — De Optimo Genere Oratorum, which literally translates as the Best Kind of Orator , is a work from Marcus Tullius Cicero written in 46 BCE between two of his other works, Brutus (Cicero) and the Orator ad M. Brutum. Cicero attempts to explain why… … Wikipedia
Loeb Classical Library — The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience … Wikipedia
Lycurgus of Athens — Lycurgus (in Greek Λυκοῦργος; 396 ndash;323 BC), an Attic orator, was born at Athens about 396 BC, and was the son of Lycophron, who belonged to the noble family of the Eteobutadae.Pseudo Plutarch, Moralia , Lives of the Ten Orators , [http://www … Wikipedia
Public speaking — Oratory redirects here. For other uses, see Oratory (disambiguation). For the 2010 HBO documentary, see Public Speaking (film). Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform … Wikipedia
Lysias — (Greek: Λυσίας) (born ca. 445 BC; died ca. 380 BC) was an Attic orator.LifeAccording to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the author of the life ascribed to Plutarch, Lysias was born in 459 BC, which would accord with a tradition that Lysias reached … Wikipedia
Dinarchus — or Dinarch (Corinth, c. 361 BC – c. 291 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the … Wikipedia
Antiphon (person) — Antiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC. There is an ongoing controversy over whether he is one and the same with Antiphon (Unicode|Ἀντιφῶν) of the Athenian deme Rhamnus in Attica (480 ndash;411 … Wikipedia
