Editing Hypereides (section)

== Personality and oratorical style ==
Hypereides was an ardent pursuer of "the beautiful," which in his time generally meant pleasure and luxury.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He was a flamboyant figure, unwavering in public in his hostility to Macedon. He was a well-known epicure given to fine food and women. He engaged in countless affairs with prostitutes, some of whom he defended in court.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Worthington |first1=Ian |title=Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus |date=2001 |publisher=University of Texas Press, Austin |location=Texas |isbn=0-292-79142-9 |pages=65–66}}</ref> His temper was easy-going and humorous. Though in his development of the [[periodic sentence]] he followed [[Isocrates]], the essential tendencies of his style are those of [[Lysias]]. His diction was plain, though he occasionally indulged in long compound words probably borrowed from [[Middle Comedy]]. His composition was simple. He was especially distinguished for subtlety of expression, grace and wit.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>([http://attalus.org/translate/longinus2.html#34 ''De sublimitate'', 34]) in the phrase-"''Hypereides was the [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan|Sheridan]] of Athens''"</ref> Hypereides is known to have owned at least two or three pieces of property: an estate in [[Eleusis]], a house in Athens, and a house in [[Piraeus]], where he kept one of his many women. In around 340 BC he is known to have performed only two public services, as trierarch and Chorus producer. It is said he had received money from the Persian King who was alarmed at Macedon's expansion.<ref name="Dinarchus, Hyperides & Lycurgus"/>