Philocrates

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Philocrates was an Athenian politician in the 4th century BC. Chr.

Philocrates stood between 350 and 340 BC BC in Athens politically dominant group around Eubulus . Together with Demosthenes , he spoke out against Philip II of Macedonia and in favor of the beginning of peace negotiations with him even before the defeat of the city of Olynthos - a polis on the Chalkidike allied with Athens . As a member of a delegation, he traveled in 346 BC. BC to Macedonia, where the so-called Philocrates Peace was negotiated. After a stay in Athens and another trip to Macedonia for the final conclusion of the treaty, returned to Attica in July of this year after the legation had stayed in Thessaly for a long time . Here it came to conflict with Demosthenes. However, Philocrates achieved an honor for Philip by the Athenian state as well as the extension of the treaty with Macedonia to his descendants and the threat to the Phocians from war if they did not withdraw from the sanctuary of Delphi . In the following years Philocrates was one of the Promakedonian politicians in Athens. After Demosthenes publicly reproached him for these acts in his Second Philippine Speech (No. 6), he was reproached in 343 BC. BC accused by Hypereides of treason and bribery before the people's assembly. Unpopular because of his profitable contacts with Macedonia, Philocrates fled before the trial was opened and was sentenced to death.

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SURNAME Philocrates
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 350 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 340 BC Chr.