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Headword:
*polukra/ths
Adler number: pi,1977
Translated headword: Polykrates, Polycrates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An Athenian, a rhetor, a clever man who wrote the two speeches against Sokrates, for Anytos and Meletos.
Greek Original:*polukra/ths, *)aqhnai=os, r(h/twr, deino/s te kai\ tou\s kata\ *swkra/tous lo/gous b# *)anu/tw| kai\ *melh/tw| gra/yas.
Notes:
c.440-370 BCE; OCD4
Polycrates(2).
On Socrates see generally
sigma 829, and for his prosecutors (in 399) Anytos and Meletos,
alpha 2800,
mu 498. Whatever the author or source of the present entry thought, Polykrates did not supply any speeches for the actual trial. Rather, his rhetorical
Prosecution of Sokrates was written 6-7 years later; and the so-called
Apologies (=
Defence Speeches) by
Plato and
Xenophon were perhaps responses to it.
Keywords: biography; geography; law; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 December 2000@09:46:47.
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