Androtion

Androtion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ἀνδροτίων). A Greek historian, an Athenian, and a pupil of Isocrates, who was accused of making an illegal proposal, and went into banishment at Megara. We still have the speech composed by Demosthenes for one of the accusers. At Megara he wrote a history of Attica (see Atthis) in at least twelve books, one of the best of that class of writings; b...

Read More

Androtion in Wikipedia

Androtion (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδροτίων, gen.: Ἀνδροτίωνος; c. 350 B.C.), Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his time, was a pupil of Isocrates and a contemporary of Demosthenes. He is known to us chiefly from the speech of Demosthenes, in which he was accused of illegality in proposing the usual honour of a crown to the Council of Fi...

Read More

1