The Attic orator Andocides is one of the 10 orators already recognized as classical in antiquity. In the list of such he stands second, after Antiphon. He was not particularly respected; already in ancient times he was considered a rather mediocre speaker, perhaps the worst among the ten. In addition, in life he was by no means a professional rhetorician, but a political adventurer. The speeches are accompanied by parallel evidence from ancient authors and the so-called “Hermocopid stelae” - lists of confiscated items from the perpetrators in the case of sacrilege with their assessment, making it clear how much it cost in Athens at the turn of the V-IV centuries. BC

CONTENTS: E.D. Frolov. From the history of political struggle in Athens at the end of the 5th century BC. (Andokides and the Hermocopid process) 5Andokides. SpeechesI. About the mysteries 33II. About his return 81III. About peace with the Lacedaemonians 91IV. Against Alquiades 104 Parallel evidence about the processes of sacrilege in Athens in 415 - 413. BC1. Thucydides 1212. [Lysias] 1263. Isocrates 1384. Diodorus 1405. Plutarch 1426. [Plutarch] 1507. Cornelius Nepos 1538. Attic arrows 156Appendices 191Notes 196Glossary of special terms 222Index of names and place names 230Afterword 24 5Bibliography 248