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'''Hypereides''' (c. [[390 BC|390]]-[[322 BC]]), one of the ten [[Attic orators]], was the son of Glaucippus, of the deme of Collytus.

Having studied under [[Isocrates]], he began life as a [[logographer (legal)|logographer]] (writer of speeches for the courts), and in [[360 BC]] he prosecuted Autocles, a general charged with treason in [[Thrace]] (frags. 55-65, Blass). At the time of the so-called "Social War" ([[358 BC|358]]–[[355 BC]]) he accused [[Aristophon]], then one of the most influential men at [[Athens]], of malpractices (frags. 40-44, Blass), and impeached Philocrates ([[343 BC]]) for high treason. From the peace of [[346 BC|346]] to [[324 BC]] Hypereides supported [[Demosthenes]] in the struggle against [[Macedon]]ia; but as the affair of [[Harpalus]] he was one of the ten public prosecutors of Demosthenes, and on the exile of his former leader he became the head of the patriotic party (324 BC).

After the death of [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]], he was the chief promoter of the [[Lamian war]] ([[323 BC|323]]-[[322 BC]]) against [[Antipater]] and [[Craterus]]. After the decisive [[battle of Crannon|defeat at Crannon]] (322 BC), Hypereides and the other orators, whose surrender was demanded by Antipater, were condemned to death by the Athenian partisans of Macedonia.

Hypereides fled to [[Aegina]], but Antipater's emissaries dragged him from the temple of [[Poseidon]], where he had taken refuge, and put him to death; according to others, he was taken before Antipater at Athens near Cleonae. His body was afterwards removed to Athens for burial.

Hypereides was an ardent pursuer of "the beautiful," which in his time generally meant pleasure and luxury. His temper was easy-going and humorous; and hence, though in his development of the periodic sentence he followed [[Isocrates]], the essential tendencies of his style are those of [[Lysias]], whom he surpassed, however, in the richness of his vocabulary and in the variety of his powers. His diction was plain and forcible, though he occasionally indulged in long compound words probably borrowed from the Middle Comedy, with which, and with the everyday life of his time, he was in full sympathy. His composition was simple. He was specially distinguished for subtlety of expression, grace and wit, as well as for tact in approaching his case and pseudo-Longinus (''De sublimitate'', 34) in the phrase-"Hypereides was the Sheridan of Athens."

Seventy-seven speeches were attributed to Hypereides, of which seventy-five were regarded as spurious even by ancient critics. It is said that a manuscript of most of the speeches was in existence in the [[15th century]] in the library of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, but was destroyed at the capture of Buda by the Turks in the 16th century. Only a few fragments were known until comparatively recent times. In 1847 large fragments of his speeches Against Imosthenes (see above) and ''For Lycophron'' (incidentally interesting elucidating the order of marriage processions and other details Athenian life, and the Athenian government of [[Lemnos]]), and the sole of the ''For Euxenippus'' (c. 330, a ''locus classicus'' on state prosecutions), were found in a tomb at Thebes in Egypt, and 1856 a considerable portion of a Funeral Oration ''For [[Leosthenes]]'' and his comrades who had fallen in the [[Lamian war]], the best extant specimen of epideictic oratory.

Towards the end of the century further discoveries were made of the conclusion of the speech Against Philippides (dealing with an indictment for the proposal of unconstitutional measure, arising out of the disputes of the Macedonian and anti-Macedonian parties at Athens), and of the whole the ''Against Athenogenes'' (a perfumer accused of fraud in the sale his business). These have been edited by F. G. Kenyon (1893). An important speech that is lost is the ''Deliacus'' (frags. 67-75, Blass) i the presidency of the Delian temple claimed by both Athens and cbs, which was adjudged by the [[Amphictyony|Amphictyons]] to Athens. Also lost is the speech, famous in ancient times, by which he defended the illustrious courtesan [[Phryne]] (said to have been his mistress): according to [[Plutarch]] and [[Athenaeus]] the speech climaxed in Hyperides stripping off her clothes to reveal her naked breasts, in the face of which the judges found it impossible to condemn her.

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 Towards the end of the century further discoveries were made of the conclusion of the speech Against Philippides (dealing with an indictment for the proposal of unconstitutional measure, arising out of the disputes of the Macedonian and anti-Macedonian parties at Athens), and of the whole the ''Against Athenogenes'' (a perfumer accused of fraud in the sale his business). These have been edited by F. G. Kenyon (1893). An important speech that is lost is the ''Deliacus'' (frags. 67-75, Blass) i the presidency of the Delian temple claimed by both Athens and cbs, which was adjudged by the [[Amphictyony|Amphictyons]] to Athens. Also lost is the speech, famous in ancient times, by which he defended the illustrious courtesan [[Phryne]] (said to have been his mistress): according to [[Plutarch]] and [[Athenaeus]] the speech climaxed in Hyperides stripping off her clothes to reveal her naked breasts, in the face of which the judges found it impossible to condemn her.
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