Publications [#328435] of Kent J. Rigsby

Papers Published

1. Rigsby, KJ, A Litigant in Athens: Demosthenes 56, The Classical Quarterly, vol. 66 no. 01 (May, 2016), pp. 398-399 [doi] [PDF]
   (last updated on 2026/01/20)

   Abstract:
   The speaker of Demosthenes 56 had lent money to a ship-owner Dionysodorus for a commercial voyage, and now is prosecuting him for breach of contract. The prosecutor is usually thought to be a metic. In the course of the speech he does not identify himself; but Libanius in his Argumenta of Demosthenes supplies a name, Darius: Arg. 54.1 Δαρεῖος καὶ Πάμφιλος Διονυσοδώρῳ δανείζουσι and 2 ὡς δὲ Δαρεῖος λέγει. The manuscripts of the Argumenta, which begin in the tenth century, are numerous; Foerster (VIII 677) and Dindorf/Blass (III xlviii) cite no variant for the name. Libanius’ source for this information is unrecoverable.