Life The author of the Aeschines Lives (Ἀισχίνου Βίοι) is anonymous. The work, dated to the late antique period (2nd–5th c. CE), is a biographical compilation concerning the 4th-century BCE Athenian orator Aeschines, not a work composed by him [1][2][3][4]. No details about the compiler’s identity survive.

Works The sole known work is Aeschines Lives, a prose biography in Koine Greek. Its extent, whether fragmentary or complete, is not detailed in standard references.

Significance As a late antique biography, the work belongs to the tradition of ancient literary historiography. It potentially preserves anecdotes or details from earlier, now-lost sources about Aeschines’ career, contributing to the orator’s reception history, though its specific content and reliability are not evaluated in the major encyclopedic sources.

Sources 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford University): https://plato.stanford.edu 2. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (University of Tennessee Martin): https://iep.utm.edu 3. Encyclopædia Britannica (Britannica): https://www.britannica.com 4. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics (Oxford University Press): https://oxfordre.com/classics/