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It is surely too much of a coincidence that Andocides should first have been persuaded by Charmides to tell all about the Hermae affair, and then, month later.!
Andocides ( BC - BC) was an ancient Athenian orator.
Andocides
Greek logographer and orator (c.440–c.390 BC)
This article is about the orator. For the potter, see Andokides (potter). For the painter, see Andokides painter.
Andocides (;[1]Ancient Greek: Ἀνδοκίδης, Andokides; c. 440 – c. 370 BC[citation needed]) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece.
He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.
Life
Andocides was the son of Leogoras, and was born in Athens around 440 BC.[2] He belonged to the ancient Eupatrid family of the Kerykes, who traced their lineage up to Odysseus and the god Hermes.[3][4][5][6]
During his youth, Andocides seems to have been employed on various occasions as ambassador to Thessaly, Macedonia, Molossia, Thesprotia, Italy, and Sicily.[7] Although he was frequently att