# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antiphon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:54:51.416Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 480 BC in the Attic deme of Rhamnus, Antiphon emerged as a central figure in fifth-century Athenian intellectual life at a time when public speaking was becoming both art and weapon. He was the first to write speeches for others to deliver in court, professionalizing persuasion in a city where every citizen might face a jury. His oratorical works established him as the earliest of the ten Attic orators whose texts endured. Scholars have long debated whether he also penned Sophistic treatises and a work on dream interpretation, or whether those belonged to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. He died in 411 BC, leaving rhetoric's blueprint behind.