(Δείναρχος; Deínarchos).
A. Life
Attic orator, born about 361 BC in Corinth, son of Sostratus, died after 292.
The source of information on his life is the (incompletely transmitted) treatise De Dinarcho of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who relied in particular on a lost speech by D. (‘Against Proxenus’); the other lives (Ps.-Plut., Photius, Suda) depend on Dionysius. D. relocated in his younger years (c. 340/38) to Athens, lived there as a metic and had links to the Peripatetic school. After about 336/5 he was active as a logographer.
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