‘For everything, two opposite perspectives can be presented.’ This principle of Protagoras is applied by Antiphon in his three fictitious Tetralogies, all concerning cases of murder. Written probably between 440 and 420 BC, they are perhaps the earliest surviving examples of Attic prose.
However, there is nothing primitive about them. Even today, they surprise us with their density, their linguistic experiments, and above all, their sharp wit. In these rhetorical games, Antiphon fully justifies Thucydides' view that no contemporary of his surpassed him in the art of argumentation.
Translation, Introduction, Annotations: Michael Edwards
Translation, Introduction, Annotations: Vasilis Lentakis
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