Isocrates
Americannoun
noun
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It legally belongs to a foundation he established called Isocrates.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
Candidates for higher education would be expected to have tracts of Cicero, Virgil, Isocrates, and Homer by heart.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Aristotle needed to attract pupils—and while his rival Isocrates was teaching rhetoric, the Lyceum needed to be able to compete.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Both were pupils of Isocrates, and both, therefore, bred up in an atmosphere of rhetoric.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
Thus Isocrates, in three of his orations, delivered 366-342 B.C., repeats that the Dorians had now been four hundred years in Peloponnesus.
From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland
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