Apollodoros, Against Neaira (Demosthenes) 59.

Apollodoros, the son of Pasion, of all classical Athenians, seems suitable for a detailed psychological investigation: son of the most successful ex-slave known to us from ancient Greece, the banker Pasion, he sought desperately to be accepted, and to make his mark, at the top, most political, level of Athenian society, and appears, hardly surprisingly, a brash, pushy, and deeply insecure individual, whose family disputes, financial dealings, and political activities as an ally of Demosthenes brought him numerous enemies and setbacks. After centuries during which the surviving speeches he composed have masqueraded under the title of Pseudo-Demosthenes, he now obtains ~star billing' (Carey, p. vii) twice in one year, in this edition of his best-known and most entertaining speech, and in the most detailed study of the man and his work yet to appear, Jeremy Trevett's very useful Apollodoros, the Son of pasion (Oxford, 1992; see this volume p. 00). Carey and Trevett each made their work known …