Isocrates

[ ahy-sok-ruh-teez ]

noun

1. 436–338 b.c., Athenian orator.

Isocrates

/ aɪˈsɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

1. Isocrates436 bc338 bcMGreekAthenianPHILOSOPHY: rhetoricianEDUCATION: teacher 436–338 bc , Athenian rhetorician and teacher

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In practice as distinct from theory, Isocrates probably had an influence more direct and intense, but briefer.

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He tries to minimise the evidence, remarking that Isocrates promises the very same rewards to all who live justly and righteously.

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Together with the historian Theopompus he was a pupil of Isocrates, in whose school he attended two courses of rhetoric.

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Those of Aristotle are of questionable genuineness, but we can rely, at any rate in part, on those of Isocrates and Epicurus.

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The chief writer of this Pan-Hellenic movement was Isocrates.

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