Editing Attic orators (section)

{{Short description|5th–4th century BC group of Greek speakers}}
[[Image:Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole (1870) by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Lives of the Ten Orators'', from an unknown writer whose [[wiktionary:allonym|allonym]] is [[Pseudo-Plutarch]], delivers a [[pseudepigraphy]] for the ten Attic orators; here Demosthenes practises his craft.]]
{{Rhetoric}}

The ten '''Attic orators''' were considered the greatest Greek [[orator]]s and [[logographer (legal)|logographer]]s of the [[classical antiquity|classical era]] (5th–4th century BC). They are included in the "Canon of Ten", which probably originated in [[Alexandria]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=R.M.|title=A New Look at the Canon of the Ten Attic Orators|journal=Mnemosyne|volume=48|issue=1|year=1995|page=74}}</ref> A.E. Douglas has argued, however, that it was not until the second century AD that the canon took on the form that is recognised today.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Douglas|first=A.E.|title=Cicero, Quintillian, and the Canon of Ten Attic Orators|journal=Mnemosyne|volume=9|issue=1|year=1956|page=40}}</ref>