. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Terence maygive us a general notion of the NewMenander. Comedy of the Greeks, from which they were confessedly drawn; but there iffgood reason to suppose that the works even of the latter Romanwriter fell far short of the wit and elegance of Menander. The latter days of literary Athens were chiefly distinguished bythe genius of her Orators and Philosophers. There were ten Atticorators, whose works were collected by the Greek grammarians,and many of whose orations have come down to us. Their namesare Antiphon, Andocid
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Terence maygive us a general notion of the NewMenander. Comedy of the Greeks, from which they were confessedly drawn; but there iffgood reason to suppose that the works even of the latter Romanwriter fell far short of the wit and elegance of Menander. The latter days of literary Athens were chiefly distinguished bythe genius of her Orators and Philosophers. There were ten Atticorators, whose works were collected by the Greek grammarians,and many of whose orations have come down to us. Their namesare Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isseus, iEschines, Ly-curgus, Demosthenes, Hyperides, and Dinarchus. Axtiphon, theearliest of the ten, was born 480. He opened a school ofrhetoric, and numbered among his pupils the historian was put to death in 411 for the part which he tookin establishing the oligarchy of the Four Hundred. Andocides, who was concerned with Alcibiades in the affair ofthe Hermae, was bom at Athens in 467, and died probablyabout Chap. XXII. ISOCRATES — JSSCH1NES — DEMOSTHENES. 235 Lysias, also born at Athens in 458, was much superior to Ando-cides as an orator, but being a metic, or resident alien, he was notallowed to speak in the assemblies or courts of justice, and thereforewrote orations for others to deliver. Isocrates was born in 436. After receiving the instructions ofsome of the most celebrated sophists of the day, he became himselfa speech-writer and professor of rhetoric; his weakly constitutionand natural timidity preventing him from taking a part in publiclife. He made away with himself in 338, after the fatal battleof Chaeronea, in despair, it is said, of his countrys fate. Hetook great pains with his compositions, and is reported to havespent ten, or, according to others, fifteen years over his Panegyricoration. Is^us flourished between the end of the Peloponnesian war audthe accession of Philip of Macedon. He open
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