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AESCHINES

Against Timarchos

Introduction, Translation,

and Commentary by

Nick Fisher

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Aeschines.

[Against Timarchos. English]

Against Timarchos / Aeschines ; introduction, translation,

and commentary by Nick Fisher.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-19-924156-2

1. Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek—Translations into English.

I. Fisher, N. R. E. (Nicholas Ralph Edmund) II. Title. III. Series.

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PREFACE

, is an extremely impor-

tant text from a climactic period of Athens’ political history, the

time when the city had agreed to make peace with Philip II of

Macedon, and was immediately deeply divided over the wisdom

of the peace and the motives of those who had argued most

vigorously for it. Aeschines, who was facing a major trial for his

part on the embassy, brought charges against his leading prosecu-

tor, Timarchos, which included the allegations that in his younger

days he had permitted acts of disgraceful sex to be performed on

his body by a succession of men for material rewards.

The history of the treatment of this speech by classical scholars

seems to have been determined above all by its high sexual con-

tent (albeit purposely inexplicit and tantalizing); also in

uential

has probably been the view, prevalent alike in ancient and

modern times, that Demosthenes, his great rival, was both a

better orator and a nobler and braver defender of Athenian

freedom.

Until the last thirty or forty years, the story of this speech is one

of remarkable neglect. Some Greek texts of Aeschines have been

produced (though there has been as yet no Oxford text); only

one English translation has been available (the Loeb by Charles

Adams), though Christopher Carey has just produced one in the

new series of translations edited by Michael Gagarin. Most strik-

ing is the fact that there has been no commentary, with or without

the Greek text, on this speech in any language (and as yet too no

detailed modern commentary on either of his other two speeches).

Until the 1960s, those who had to comment on the trial and

Aeschines’ arguments against Timarchos commonly resorted to

vague or euphemistic allusions, rather than engage in the details

and reliability of the accusations: the tendency was either to con-

demn Aeschines out of hand for gross muckracking, or (as e.g. in

the 1872 Paris thesis of Ferdinand de Castets on Éschine l’Orateur ) to

assume the truth of the allegations through a patent disinclination

to examine them closely.

Since the 1960s the ‘sexual revolution’ and the development of

ﬂ

Aeschines’ speech against Timarchos, the published version of his

prosecution speech in the trial of 346/5

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