Stephanos (Athenian)

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Stephanos ( Greek Στέφανος Stéphanos ), son of Antidorides from the Demos Eroiadai , was an Athenian orator and politician who mainly worked in the middle of the 4th century BC. . BC was active.

With his politics and as an accuser before the popular assembly, Stephanos was a supporter of Kallistratos . In the spring of 346 BC Chr. He brought the request to renew the friendship and alliance with Mytilene one. He became particularly well known through a trial in which he was accused by his adversary and former victim Apollodorus . He should have wrongly passed off the children of or with the former hetaera Neaira as children from a legally binding marriage to an Athenian woman. He is said to have wrongly married his daughter Phano twice to Athenian citizens. Nothing is known about the outcome of the proceedings and the fate of Stephanos. It is also unclear how Stephanos was able to hold out as a major prosecutor in Athens for an extended period when there were such rumors and accusations against him.

swell

  • Athenaios 13,593f.-594a
  • Pseudo-Demosthenes or. 59
    • German translation in: Kai Brodersen: Antiphon, Against the Stepmother, and Apollodoros, Against Neaira (Demosthenes 59). Women in court. Knowledge Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004 (Texts on Research, 84), ISBN 3-534-17997-8 .

literature

  • Debra Hamel: The Neaira Case. The true story of a hetaera in ancient Greece . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89678-255-X .
personal data
SURNAME Stephanos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek speaker and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.