The Shelves · Rhetoric
Speeches (Against Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton, Against Philocles, and others)
Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placement
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Rhetoric: “forensic speeches”
Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placementDinarchus of Corinth
Speeches
Opening words not preserved.
Length: not counted
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Survives in large part
Three speeches survive whole, out of some sixty that Dionysius of Halicarnassus accepted as genuine.
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedAcquired for the Library.
In the cupboard: an ancient source reports it entering the collection or the Pinakes.
Read it today
- Against Demosthenes, Greek with English (Scaife Viewer) · original and translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
III · In the show
The show has not yet spoken of this work.
IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Dinarchus 1
Modern scholarship (2)
- I. Worthington, A Historical Commentary on Dinarchus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992).
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)
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