Dinarchus
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Dinarchus or Dinarch (; Corinth, c. 361 – c. 291 BC) was a logographer (speechwriter) 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.
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- Born
- ca. 360 BCE
- Died
- ca. 290 BCE
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Discours
- Orationes, adiectis Demadis qui fertur fragmentis
- Minor Attic orators
- The Orations of Demosthenes
- Orationes adjectis Demadis qui fertur fragmentis
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Ancient Corinth
- Place of death
- Classical Athens
- Occupation
- orator
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Residence
- Classical Athens
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- 0400-00-00
- time period
- classical antiquity
- date of birth
- 0360-00-00
- date of death
- 0292-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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Dinarchus or Dinarch (; Corinth, c. 361 – c. 291 BC) was a logographer (speechwriter) 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.
==Life== A son of Sostratus (or, according to the Suda, Socrates), Dinarchus settled at Athens early in life, and when not more than twenty-five was already active as a logographer—a writer of speeches for the law courts. As a metic, he was unable to take part in the debates. He had been the pupil both of Theophrastus and of Demetrius Phalereus, and had early acquired a certain fluency and versatility of style.
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