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The Orations against Athenogenes and Philippides

Hyperides; edited with English translation by Frederic G. Kenyon

Brings the less familiar Athenian orator into the collection through actual arguments about alleged concealed liabilities, an enslaved family and a business transaction, alongside a fragment concerning civic honours. The two speeches are one bibliographic acquisition.

A question to carry into the reading

When a speaker invokes fair agreement, what information, interests and voices are absent from the argument?

Read Kenyon’s account of the papyrus and textual gaps, then the English contract argument in Against Athenogenes, printed pp. 17–19, and the surviving Philippides conclusion.

Further reading: MA-COL2-014 · MA-COL2-015

These are curatorial comparisons, not evidence supporting a scientific claim.

Reading and source

Both speeches survive incompletely. The volume is a complete 126-page scan, not two complete ancient speeches. It is partisan advocacy, not a neutral trial record or a verified verdict. OCR is unreliable for Greek; use the facsimile for quotation and page references. Slavery and civic prejudice need explicit historical context.

The selected historical edition or paper is preserved in its original PDF. Consult the edition and transmission notes below.

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Edition, source and reuse

Edition: London: George Bell & Sons, 1893; Cornell University copy, Internet Archive identifier cu31924026673131

Rights: The scan carries Cornell’s US no-known-copyright-restrictions notice. The 1893 edition is public domain in the United States; Kenyon died in 1952, so his ordinary Canadian term expired before the non-retroactive 2022 extension. This is not a worldwide public-domain assertion. The generic life-plus-100 notice on a discovery page is not adopted as evidence about this translator.

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The Orations against Athenogenes and Philippides — Hyperides; edited with English translation by Frederic G. Kenyon. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893; Cornell University copy, Internet Archive identifier cu31924026673131. Source: https://archive.org/details/cu31924026673131. Selected source bytes unchanged; HCR description and reading question are separate.

Review scope: Title, Cornell notice, editorial introduction, papyrus/transmission discussion and selected English argument inspected; title, Greek text and English translation pages visually checked. No OCR derivative distributed.