Antiphon
Subtitle: The Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Contributors: Michael Gagarin (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780521389310
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Ancient and Classical; General; Language Arts & Disciplines-General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
First sentence: Background. The speaker's father and his friend Philoneus were dining together when (we are told) Philoneus' pallake ("concubine" - see 1.14n.), whom he was about to discard, after serving dinner to the two men added a drug to their wine, killing Philoneus immediately and causing the father's death several days later.