Antiphon (disambiguation)

In music, an antiphon is a responsory by a choir or congregation in Christian music.

Antiphon may also refer to:

People

Antiphon was a common personal name in Ancient Greece, with the result that it is not always easy for scholars to distinguish between different bearers of the name.

• Antiphon (orator) (480–411 BC), Athenian orator, one of the Ten Attic Orators and a significant political figure
• Antiphon the Sophist, the writer of the Sophistic works of Antiphon, believed by many scholars to have been Antiphon the Orator
• Antiphon, who wrote a treatise on the Interpretation of Dreams, possibly Antiphon the Sophist
• Antiphon (tragic poet) (died 411 BC), incorrectly confused with Antiphon the Orator by Plutarch and Philostratus
• Antiphon (epic poet), mentioned in the Suda
• Antiphon (brother of Plato), brother of the philosopher Plato
• Antiphon (arsonist) (died 342 BC), mentioned in a speech of the orator Demosthenes
• Antiphon (writer), author of a lost treatise on men distinguished for virtue

Other uses

• Antiphon (mythology), a comrade of Odysseus
• Antiphon (album), a 2013 album by Midlake
• The Antiphon, a 1958 play by Djuna Barnes

See also

• Antiphona, a Venezuelan mixed choir
• Antiphonary, a Catholic liturgical book
• Antiphonus, in Greek mythology, a son of King Priam of Troy