The ten Attic orators were considered the greatest orators and logographers of the classical era (5th century BC–4th century BC). They are included in the Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace. Orator is a Latin word for speaker (from the Latin verb oro, meaning I speak or I pray). In ancient Rome, the art of speaking in public (Ars Oratoria) was a professional competence especially cultivated by politicians and lawyers. ... The title of logographer (from the Ancient Greek λογογράφος, logographos, a compound of λόγος, logos, word, and γράφω, grapho, write) was applied to professional authors of judicial discourse in Ancient Greece. ... (6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Demotic becomes the dominant script of ancient Egypt Persians invade Greece twice (Persian Wars) Battle of Marathon (490) Battle of Salamis (480) Athenian empire rises and falls Peloponnesian War... (5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Invasion of the Celts into Ireland Gauls sack Rome Kingdom of Macedon conquers Persian empire The Scythians are beginning to be absorbed into the Sarmatian people. ... Aristophanes of Byzantium, Gr. ... Aristarchus of Samothrace, Gr. ...

• Antiphon
• Andocides
• Lysias
• Isocrates
• Isaeus
• Aeschines
• Lycurgus
• Demosthenes
• Hypereides
• Dinarchus

Their work inspired the later rhetorical movement of Atticism. Antiphon of Rhamnus in Attica, the earliest of the ten Attic orators, was born in 480 BC. Antiphon was an orator and statesman who took up rhetoric as a profession. ... Andocides, or Andokidès , (440–390 BC) one of the ten Attic orators. ... Lysias, Attic orator, was born, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the author of the life ascribed to Plutarch, in 459 BC. This date was evidently obtained by reckoning back from the foundation of Thurii (444 BC), since there was a tradition that Lysias had gone thither at the age... Isocrates (436–338 BC), Greek rhetorician. ... Isaeus (fl. ... Aeschines (389 - 314 BC), Greek statesman and orator, was born at Athens. ... For the Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, see Demosthenes (general). ... Hypereides (c. ... Dinarchus, (c. ... Atticism literally means favouring the Athenians. ...

External link

• Lives of the Ten Orators (http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/plu10or/), pseudo-Plutarchian biographies of the Attic orators