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Phocion

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Phocion (c. 402-317 BC)

Athenian general and statesman. An opponent of the orator Demosthenes, he advocated peace with Philip II of Macedon.

Phocion was celebrated as an extempore orator. In 318, he was suspected of having advised the seizure of Peiraias by Cassander's general Nicanor, and he was executed.



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As we turned and moved again through the temple, I wished that the illustrious men who had sat in it in the remote ages could visit it again and reveal themselves to our curious eyes--Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Socrates, Phocion, Pythagoras, Euclid, Pindar, Xenophon, Herodotus, Praxiteles and Phidias, Zeuxis the painter.
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Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men, but they leave no class.
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