Isocrates

[ahy-sok-ruh-teez]

noun

1. 436–338 b.c., Athenian orator.

Isocrates

/ aɪˈsɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

1. 436–338 _bc , Athenian rhetorician and teacher

Example Sentences

It legally belongs to a foundation he established called Isocrates.

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As it happened, a brilliant young student in Plato’s school wrote a short work in response to Isocrates’ criticisms: the Protrepticus, a text that became famous in antiquity.

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Candidates for higher education would be expected to have tracts of Cicero, Virgil, Isocrates, and Homer by heart.

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And it is paralleled by Isocrates, a contemporary of Plato, in those words spoken by the King Nicocles when addressing his governors, “You should be to others what you think I should be to you.”

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His style is the very opposite of that of Isocrates and the rhetoricians.

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