3. Of Athens, a sophist and an epic poet. Suidas, who says that he was surnamed
Not a line of his poems is extant.
He wrote a work on the interpretation of dreams, which is referred to by Artemidorus,
Cicero, and others. (Artemid. Oneirocr. 2.14; Cic. de
Divin. 1.20, 51, 2.70.)
He is unquestionably the same person as the Antiphon who was an opponent of Socrates, and
who is mentioned by Xenophon (Memorab. 1.6.1; compare Controv. 9), and must be
distinguished from the rhetorician Antiphon of Rhamnus, as well as from the tragic poet of
the same name, although the ancients themselves appear to have been doubtful as to who the
Antiphon mentioned by Xenophon really was.
Ruhnken, Opuscula, i. pp. 148, &c., 169, &c., ed.
Friedemann.