Dinarchus

Dinarchus in Wikipedia

Dinarchus or Dinarch (Corinth, c. 361 - 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 third century BC. A son of Sostratus (or, according to the Suda, Socrates), Dinarchus settled...

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Dinarchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Δείναρχος). One of the ten Greek orators, for the explanation of whose orations Harpocration compiled his lexicon. (See Canon Alexandrinus.) He was a Corinthian by birth, but settled at Athens and became intimate with Theophrastus and Demetrius Phalereus. Dionysius of Halicarnassus fixes his birth at B.C. 361. The time of his highest reputation wa...

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