The Greek text of Alcidamas is available in various editions, including F. Blass, Antiphontis Orationes et Fragmenta (Leipzig: 1881), L. Radermacher, Artium Scrip-tores (Vienna: 1951), G. Avezzii, Alcidamante: Orazioni e Frammenti (Rome: 1982), and J. V. Muir, Alcidamas: The Works and Fragments (London: 2001). Translations into English of both speeches may be found in M. Gagarin and P. Woodruff (eds.), Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists (Cambridge: 1995), pp. 276289. For the fragments, J. V. Muir, Alcidamas (cited above), is essential; his translation of the speeches is more literal than that of Gagarin and Woodruff, and better reflects some of the stylistic features of Alcidamas’ Greek. Translations of On Sophists are also available in P. Matson, R. Rollinson and M. Sousa (eds.), Readings from Classical Rhetoric (Carbondale, Ill: 1990), pp. 38-42 and (less accessible) L. van Hook, ‘Alcidamas Versus Isocrates’, Classical Weekly 12 (1919), pp. 89-94. Avezziu’s edition has an Italian translation, and there is a fine translation into Dutch of, with brief commentary on, On Sophists by J. A.E. Bons, ‘Schrijven is Silver, Spreken is Goud’, Lampas 31 (1998), pp. 219-241. The main commentary in English on Alcidamas is that of J. V. Muir, Alcidamas (cited above). Another essential discussion, though with its focus on Alcidamas’ style it requires a good knowledge of Greek (which is not translated), is N. O’Sullivan, Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theory (Stuttgart: 1992). Various other studies are mentioned in my notes, and in English see in addition H. L. Hudson-Williams, ‘Political Speeches in Athens’, CQ2 1 (1951), pp. 68-73, D. M. MacDowell, ‘Gorgias, Alcidamas and the Cripps and Palatine Manuscripts’, CQ2 11 (1961), pp. 113-124 and M. J. Milne, A Study in Alcidamas and his Relation to Contemporary Sophistic (Diss. Bryn Mawr: 1924). There are various important studies which require knowledge of other languages, most notably the recent commentary on On Sophists by R. Mariss,
Alkidamas: iiber diejenigen, die schriftliche Reden schreiben, oder iiber die sophisten (Munster: 2002). See also H. Auer, De Alcidamantis declamatione quae inscribitur Odysseus kata Palamldlsprodosias (Diss. Munster: 1913), K. Barwick, ‘Die ‘‘Rhetorik ad Alexandrum’’ und Anaximenes, Alkidamas, Isokrates, Aristoteles und die Theo-dekteia’, Philologus 110 (1966), pp. 212-245, M. Lavency, Aspects de la Logographie Judiciaire Attique (Louvain: 1964), F. Solmsen, ‘Drei Rekonstruktionen zur antiken Rhetorik und Poetik’, Hermes 67 (1932), pp. 133-144, and G. Walberer, Isokrates und Alkidamas (Diss. Hamburg: 1938).
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