Son of Hegesias from Sunium, Athenian rhetor and envoy from a wealthy family. In 357/6 BC he spoke in the ekklesia as a champion of aid for Eretria (IG II2 125 = Tod, 154), in 356/5 of the Athenian symmachy with Phocis (Aeschin. In Ctes. 118; Dem. Or. 19,72-74 with sch…
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Engels, Johannes (Cologne),
Hidber, Thomas (Berne),
Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna),
Meister, Klaus (Berlin) and
Markschies, Christoph (Berlin),
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