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	Aeschines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aeschines (389 - 314 BC), Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators, was born at Athens.
		The fall of Olynthus (348 BC) brought Aeschines into the political arena, and he was sent on an embassy to rouse the Peloponnese against Philip II of Macedon.
		Aeschines replied in a speech with the same title and was again acquitted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aeschines (448 words)

	AllRefer.com - Aeschines (Classical Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Aeschines rose from humble circumstances and became powerful in politics because of his oratorical gifts.
		B.C., and afterward Demosthenes bitterly and baselessly accused Aeschines of accepting Macedonian bribes.
		Aeschines lost and was fined, and retired to Asia Minor where, according to Plutarch, he lived as a professional Sophist.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Aeschine.html (275 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Carey, Aeschines
		Although Aeschines eventually married into a propertied family, it is generally doubted that his father could have afforded to provide him with an education in rhetoric, an invaluable preparation for a public career.
		Aeschines' abilities as a performer mean that the written text of his speeches cannot give us an adequate impression of the impact he made.
		Since Demosthenes (as Aeschines could anticipate) appeared in person to answer the charges, technically as supporting speaker for Ctesiphon but in reality as presenter of the main defense case, the stage was set for a magnificent grudge-match when the case came to court in 330.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/excaraes.html (4175 words)

	Aeschines - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Aeschines
		Athenian orator and principal rival of Demosthenes, with whom he was ambassador to Macedonia 348.
		Demosthenes and Timarchus prepared to prosecute Aeschines for treason because of Aeschines's attempts to reconcile the Athenians to Macedonia's expansion into Greece during negotiations between Athens and Macedonia that resulted in the peace of Philocrates 346
		Aeschines brought a suit against a certain Ctesiphon for illegally proposing the award of a crown to Demosthenes in recognition of his services to Athens.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Aeschines (227 words)

	Aeschines -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In (Click link for more info and facts about 347) 347 he was a member of the peace embassy to Philip, who seems to have won him over entirely to his side.
		In (Click link for more info and facts about 343) 343 the attack was renewed by Demosthenes in his speech On the False Embassy, Aeschines replied in a speech with the same title and was again acquitted.
		Aeschines went into voluntary exile at (A Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos) Rhodes, where he opened a school of rhetoric.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ae/aeschines.htm (381 words)

	Aeschines, from Lives of the Ten Orators, at Peitho's Web
		HE was the son of Atrometus--who, being banished by the Thirty Tyrants, was thereby a means of reducing the commonwealth to the government of the people--and of his wife Glaucothea; by birth a Cothocidian.
		For which Demosthenes accused him for being the cause of the overthrow and ruin of the Phocians, and the inflamer of war; which part he would have him thought to have acted when the Amphictyons chose him one of their deputies to the Amphissians who were building up the harbor [of Crissa].
		Some report that Aeschines was never any man's scholar, but having passed his time chiefly in course of justice, he raised himself from the office of clerk to that of orator.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/plu10or/pluaesc.htm (732 words)

	Harvard University Press/Aeschines, Speeches
		Aeschines, orator and statesman of Athens, 390 or 389–314 BC, became active in politics about 350.
		On a second embassy in 346 to ratify a peace Aeschines' delaying tactics caused the famous orator Demosthenes and Timarchus to accuse him of treason, a charge which he successfully rebutted in the strong extant speech Against Timarchus.
		As examples of Greek oratory the speeches of Aeschines rank next to those of Demosthenes, and are important documents for the study of Athenian diplomacy and inner politics.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L106.html (227 words)

	Carey, Aeschines, University of Texas Press
		His speeches all revolve around political developments in Athens during the second half of the fourth century B.C. and reflect the internal political rivalries in an Athens overshadowed by the growing power of Macedonia in the north.
		The first speech was delivered when Aeschines successfully prosecuted Timarchus, a political opponent, for having allegedly prostituted himself as a young man. The other two speeches were delivered in the context of Aeschines' long-running political feud with Demosthenes.
		Aeschines' speeches are introduced and translated by Chris Carey, Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/caraes.html (258 words)

	Aeschines on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both he and Demosthenes were members of the embassy to Philip in 348 BC, and afterward Demosthenes bitterly and baselessly accused Aeschines of accepting Macedonian bribes.
		He was to have been joined in his action by Timarchus, but Aeschines prevented this by his oration Against Timarchus (345 BC).
		Aeschines defended himself well in his oration On the False Legation (342 BC)—a title also used by Demosthenes in his accusatory oration.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/aeschine.asp (309 words)

	Classical Period - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olynthus in 348 B.C. For Demosthenes, Aeschines' conduct on that occasion was that of a traitor, and he came to an understanding with the rich politician Timarchus whereby the latter laid an accusation of treason against Aeschines.
		Aeschines, giving his own speech the same name, answered the accusations and was acquitted once more.
		Aeschines voiced his objection to this in his speech Versus Ctesiphon.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/culture/2413aischines.html (280 words)

	Aeschines
		He was to have been joined in his action by Timarchus, but Aeschines prevented this by his oration
		(345 B.C. Aeschines defended himself well in his oration
		The trouble between the orators grew and culminated in a dispute over a gold crown that the orator Ctesiphon proposed should be given Demosthenes in 330 B.C. Aeschines brought suit with
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0802630.html (200 words)

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