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Aeschines (Grekçe Αἰσχίνης, D. M.Ö. 389, Atina - Ö. M.Ö. 314),Samos. Grek Devlet adamı, Attika'lı on ünlü hatipten birisi.

[değiştir] Hayatı

Atina'da doğduğu bilinmektedir. Babası Atrometus bugün ortaokula denk gelen bir eğitim kurumunda edebiyat öğretmeni idi. Annesi Glaukothea zavallı insanları dine kabul ayinlerine yardım ederdi. Orduda üstün hizmetler verdi. Peloponessus 'ta , (M.Ö. 368'de) , Phlius'a katılarak , Bouletai (βουλευταί) yazmanlığı dahil , birkaç yazmanlık görevini bir arada yürüttü (bkz. Mantinea Savaşı (362)). and Phokion's campaign in Euboea (349 BC). The fall of Olynthus (348 BC) brought Aeschines into the political arena, and he was sent on an embassy to rouse the Peloponnese against Philip II of Macedon.

In spring of 347 BC, Aeschines addressed the assembly of Ten Thousand in Megalopolis, Arcadia urging them to unite and defend independence against Philip. In the summer 347 BC, he was a member of the peace embassy to Philip, who seems to have won him over entirely to his side. His dilatoriness during the second embassy (346 BC) sent to ratify the terms of peace led to his accusation by Demosthenes and Timarchos on a charge of high treason. Aeschines counterattacked by claiming that his accuser Timarchos had forfeited the right to speak before the people as a consequence of youthful debauches which had left him with the reputation of being a whore. Timarchos had been the eromenos of many men in the port city of Piraeus. The suit succeeded and Timarchos was sentenced to atimia and politically destroyed, according to Demosthenes. This comment was later interpreted by Pseudo-Plutarch in his Lives of the Ten Orators as meaning that Timarchos hanged himself upon leaving the assembly, a suggestion contested by some modern historians^[1]

This oration, Against Timarchos, is considered important because of the great bulk of Athenian law it cites, and the light it throws upon the construction of male homosexual relations at the time. In particular, it documents the nuanced view which the Athenians took of relations between men and youths. It shows that such relations were condoned as long as they were based on desire and persuasion, as were Aeschine's own flings with boys, his fights over them, and the poems he addressed to them, all of which he discusses so as to preclude their being used against him. On the other hand, if they were based on financial arrangements in which the boy traded his favors in exchange for money, as Timarchos was shown to have done, having been a paid escort, they were condemned. As a consequence of his successful attack on Timarchos, Aeschines was cleared of the charge of treason.^[2]

In 343 BC the attack on Aeschines was renewed by Demosthenes in his speech On the False Embassy. Aeschines replied in a speech with the same title and was again acquitted. In 339 BC, as one of the Athenian deputies (pylagorae) in the Amphictyonic Council, he made a speech which brought about the Sacred War.

By way of revenge, Aeschines endeavoured to fix the blame for these disasters upon Demosthenes. In 336 BC, when Ctesiphon proposed that his friend Demosthenes should be rewarded with a golden crown for his distinguished services to the state, he was accused by Aeschines of having violated the law in bringing forward the motion. The matter remained in abeyance till 330 BC, when the two rivals delivered their speeches Against Ctesiphon and On the Crown. The result was a complete victory for Demosthenes.

Aeschines went into voluntary exile at Rhodes, where he opened a school of rhetoric. He afterwards removed to Samos, where he died aged seventy-five. His three speeches, called by the ancients "the Three Graces," rank next to those of Demosthenes. Photius knew of nine letters by him which he called the Nine Muses; the twelve published under his name (Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci) are not genuine.

[değiştir] Ancient Authorities

Demosthenes, De Corona and De Falsa Legatione; Aeschines, De Falsa Legations and In Ctesiphentem; Lives by Plutarch, Philostratus and Libanius; the Exegesis of Apollonius.

[değiştir] Editions

Gustav Eduard Benseler (1855-1860) (trans. and notes)
Andreas Weidner (1872)
Friedrich Blass (Teubner, 1896)
Thomas Leland (1722-1785), Weidner (1872), (1878), G. A. Simcox and W. H. Simcox (1866), Drake (1872), Richardson (1889), G. Watkin and Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1890).
Teubner ed. of Orationes: 1997, edited Mervin R. Dilts. ISBN 3-8154-1009-6

[değiştir] See also

Stechow, Aeschinis Oratoris vita (1841)
Marchand, Charakteristik des Redners Aschines (1876)
Castets, Eschine, l'Orateur (1875)

For the political problems see histories of Greece, esp. A. Holm, vol. iii (Eng. trans., 1896); A. Schafer, Demosth. und seine Zeit (Leipzig, 1856-1858).

On Timarchos see Aechines Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.), Garland Publishing, 1990. pp. 15&16.

[değiştir] Notes

^ Nick Fisher, Aeschines: Against Timarchos, "Introduction," p.22 n.71; Oxford University Press, 2001
^ Nick Fisher, Aeschines: Against Timarchos, "Introduction," p.22 n.71, passim; Oxford University Press, 2001

[değiştir] External links

Livius, Aeschines by Jona Lendering
Against Ctesiphon (HTML)trans. by Thomas Leland (1722-1785)
On The Embassy (HTML) trans. by Charles Darwin Adams (1856-1938) probably from The Speeches of Aeschines, with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams published 1919.
Against Timarchus (Timarchos)(PDF) trans. by Charles Darwin Adams (1856-1938) from The Speeches of Aeschines, with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams published 1919.

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Şablon:1911

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