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grbs-16572	Kucharski, Janek	Hyperides and Aristophon: An Uneasy History	2021	24	.pdf	application/pdf	8475	421	65	But it also raises a non-negligible objection: if indeed Hyperides prosecuted Aristophon twice, why would he choose to impress the jurors with a defeat, albeit a close one, and not with the case in which he was victorious?6 Hansen’s implicit answer to this question (as he never raises it explicitly) is that in the speech for Euxenippus Hyperides’ objective is to discuss “the right use of the eisangelia” (Eisangelia 99), which in turn mandates that all the examples he produces—Aristophon, Diopeithes, and Philocrates—belong to this type of trial, even though only the last of them is explicitly identified as such. Kucharski ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 61 (2021) 263–286 Article copyright held by the author(s) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hyperides and Aristophon: An Uneasy History Janek Kucharski RISTOPHON OF AZENIA is a figure familiar to most classicists for three reasons: the re-enactment of Peri- cles’ citizenship law (403 B.C.), his biblical longevity (ca. 430–330),1 and the anecdote about his seventy-five acquittals in trials for an unlawful decree (graphe paranomon).2 In this last accomplishment his only nemesis appears to have been the orator Hyperides, the single litigant ever mentioned in the sources to have secured Aristophon’s conviction by way of such prosecution.	cache/grbs-16572.pdf	txt/grbs-16572.txt