Hypereides Hypereides ( c. 390 - 322 BC ) was a logographer ( orator for the courts ) in Ancient Greece . He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC . Rise to power Little is known about his early life except that he was the son of Glaucippus , of the deme of Collytus and that he studied logography under Isocrates . In 360 BC he prosecuted Autocles for treason . During the Social War ( 358 – 355 BC ) he accused Aristophon , then one of the most influential men at Athens , of malpractices , and impeached Philocrates ( 343 BC ) for high treason . Although Hypereides supported Demosthenes in the struggle against Phillip II of Macedon ; that support was withdrawn after the Harpalus affair . After Demosthenes ' exile Hypereides became the head of the patriotic party ( 324 BC ) . Downfall After the death of Alexander the Great , Hypereides was one of the chief promoters of war against Macedonian rule . His speeches are believed to have led to the outbreak the Lamian war ( 323 - 322 BC ) in which Athens , Aetolia , and Thessaly revolted against Macedon rule . After the decisive defeat at Crannon ( 322 BC ) in which Athens and her allies lost their independence , Hypereides and the other orators , were condemned to death by the Athenian supporters of Macedonia . Hypereides fled to Aegina only to be captured at the temple of Poseidon . After being put to death his body ( according to others ) taken to Cleonae and shown to the Macedon general Antipater before being returned to Athens for burial . Personality and Oration style This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers , and should be edited to rectify this . Please improve the article , or discuss the issue on the talk page . Hypereides was an ardent pursuer of `` the beautiful , `` which in his time generally meant pleasure and luxury . His temper was easy-going and humorous ; and hence , though in his development of the periodic sentence he followed Isocrates , the essential tendencies of his style are those of Lysias , whom he surpassed , however , in the richness of his vocabulary and in the variety of his powers . His diction was plain and forcible , though he occasionally indulged in long compound words probably borrowed from the Middle Comedy , with which , and with the everyday life of his time , he was in full sympathy . His composition was simple . He was especially distinguished for subtlety of expression , grace and wit , as well as for tact in approaching his case and pseudo-Longinus Surviving speeches Seventy-seven speeches have been attributed to Hypereides , of which seventy-five were regarded as spurious by his contemporaries . It is said that a manuscript of most of the speeches survived as late as the 15th century in the library of Matthias Corvinus , king of Hungary , but was later destroyed after the capture of Buda by the Turks in the 16th century . Only a few fragments were known until relatively recent times . In 1847 large fragments of his speeches , Against Imosthenes and For Lycophron ( incidentally interesting clarifying the order of marriage processions and other details of Athenian life , and the Athenian government of Lemnos ) and the sole of the For Euxenippus ( c. 330 , a locus classicus on state prosecutions ) , were found in a tomb at Thebes in Egypt . In 1856 a considerable portion of a eulogy for Leosthenes and his comrades who had fallen in the Lamian war . Currently this is the best surviving example of epideictic oratory . Towards the end of the ninteenth century further discoveries were made including the conclusion of the speech Against Philippides ( dealing with an indictment for the proposal of unconstitutional measure , arising out of the disputes of the Macedonian and anti-Macedonian parties at Athens ) , and of the whole the Against Athenogenes ( a perfumer accused of fraud in the sale his business ) . Lost speeches Among the speeches not yet recovered is the Deliacus in which the presidency of the Delian temple claimed by both Athens and Cos , which was adjudged by the Amphictyonic League to Athens . Also missing is the speech in which he defended the illustrious courtesan Phryne ( said to have been his mistress ) on a capital charge : according to Plutarch and Athenaeus the speech climaxed with Hyperides stripping off her clothing to reveal her naked breasts ; in the face of which the judges found it impossible to condemn her . 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