Hypereides

Hyperīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ὑπερείδης and Ὑπερίδης). One of the Ten Attic Orators, born about B.C. 390, son of the Athenian Glaucippus. He was a pupil of Plato and Isocrates, and won for himself an important position as a forensic and political orator, although his private life was not unblemished. As a statesman, he decidedly shared the views of Demosthenes, and was his ste...

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Hypereides in Wikipedia

Hypereides (Greek Ὑπερείδης, Hypereidēs; c. 390–322 BCE) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE. Rise to power Little is known about his early life except that he was the...

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