Dinarchus

Your Archos ( Δείναρχος; Latin Dinarchus; * to 361 BC in Corinth; † around 292 BC ) was the last of the ten Attic orators.

Born as the son of Sostratus in Corinth Your Archos came at a young age to Athens, where he was a pupil of Theophrastus. He could not occur as a stranger ( metic ) itself as a speaker, but a speech writer, who lectured others. Its heyday was during the reign of Demetrius of Phalerum. After Demetrios ' expulsion as a friend of the Macedonian empire threatened, your Archos went 307 BC to Chalcis in Euboea, and did not return until 292 BC, returned to Athens, where he, half blinded and taken by a friend to his fortune, more than 70 years old, was.

Of his numerous speeches ( at least 58 ) have only three, related to the harpalischen process, receive, including one against Demosthenes. According to the judgment of ancient critics he had as a speaker not it peculiar character, but imitated especially Lysias, and Demosthenes Hypereides after.