Isaeus (2) Reference library
John Brian Campbell
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... (2) , Syrian rhetorician , famous in Rome c. ad 100 for his extempore speeches and vigorous, epigrammatic style (Plin. Ep. 2. 3; Philostr. VS 513 ). John Brian...
Isaeus Quick reference
John Kenyon Davies
Who's Who in the Classical World
... , Athenian speech-writer ( c. 420–340s bc ). life The skimpy ancient biographical tradition ([Plut.] Mor. 839e—f, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ' critical essay Isaeus , and a Life preceding the speeches in the main MSS) preserves his father's name, Diagoras, but was uncertain whether he was Athenian or from Chalcis in Euboea. Isocrates reportedly taught him, but he plainly also studied Lysias ' speeches and was himself a teacher of Demosthenes and author of a technē , a speech-writer's manual. His working life extended from c. 389 to the 350s,...
Isaeus (420–340) Reference library
John Kenyon Davies
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
... , Athenian speech-writer ( c . 420–340 s bc ) Life The skimpy ancient biographical tradition ([Plut.] Mor . 839e–f, Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ critical essay Isaeus , and a Life preceding the speeches in the main MSS) preserves his father’s name, Diagoras, but was uncertain whether he was Athenian or from Chalcis in Euboea. Isocrates reportedly taught him, but he plainly also studied Lysias ’ speeches and was himself a teacher of Demosthenes and author of a technē , a speech-writer’s manual. His working life extended from c . 389 to the...
Īsaeus Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
... , Athenian speech‐writer ( c. 420–340s bc ), who specialized in inheritance cases. Some 64 speech‐titles were known in antiquity, 50 of which were reckoned genuine. Eleven survive complete, of which four can be internally dated. The subject‐matter of his speeches is fundamental for Athenian social history, lying as it does where the study of Athenian legal practice converges with those of oratorical professionalism, property acquisition strategies ( see inheritance ), and private familial...
Isaeus (1) (c.420–340s bc) Reference library
John Kenyon Davies
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... (1) , Athenian speech-writer ( c. 420–340s bc ) Life The skimpy ancient biographical tradition ([Plut.] Mor. 839e–f, Dionysius (7) of Halicarnassus' critical essay Isaeus , and a Life preceding the speeches in the main MSS) preserves his father's name, Diagoras, but was uncertain whether he was Athenian or from Chalcis in Euboea. Isocrates reportedly taught him, but he plainly also studied *Lysias' speeches and was himself a teacher of Demosthenes (2) and author of a technē , a speech-writer's manual. His working life extended from...
Īsae'us (c.420–after 353 bc) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
... ( c. 420–after 353 bc ) An Athenian orator of whose life little is known. He is represented as either Athenian or Chalcidian by birth, a pupil of Isocrates and a teacher of Demosthenes . He was a logographos ( see logographers (2) ): all his speeches were composed for others to deliver, and he took no part in political life. Of some fifty speeches with which he was credited, eleven and part of a twelfth have survived. The eleven all deal with cases of inheritance and are important as illustrative of Athenian testamentary law and of social...
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Attic orators Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
...orators In the Hellenistic period a canon of ten Attic orators was drawn up. It comprised Lysias, Isaeus, Hyperides, Isocrates, Deinarchus, Aeschines, Antiphon, Lycurgus, Andocides, and Demosthenes. Some lists exist showing slight variations. See oratory [Greek]...
Attic Orators Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...Orators By the 2nd cent. ad there was a list of ten Athenian orators ( Lysias , Isaeus , Hyperīdēs , Isocratēs , Dīnarchus , Aeschinēs (1) , Antiphōn , Lycurgus , Andocidēs , Dēmosthenēs (2) whose classic status was recognized. Paradoxically, Lysias, Isaeus, and Dinarchus, being metics, could not deliver speeches to Athenian juries or to the assembly, and Isocrates never addressed a large audience; so this entry would be better entitled ‘Speech‐writers active in Athens’, which is what all ten did, and we have only their surviving scripts by...
Attic Orators Reference library
Christopher Carey
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... On the Ancient Orators 4, Isaeus replaces Lycurgus. Quintilian ( Inst. 10. 1. 76–80) lists Demosthenes, Aeschines, Hyperides, Lysias, and Isocrates, and elsewhere ( Inst. 12. 10. 20 ff.) refers to ten orators (Lysias, Andocides, Coccus, Isocrates, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Isaeus, Antiphon, Aeschines, Demosthenes), though it is unclear whether he thinks of this list as exclusive. Dio Chrysostom 18. 11 lists Demosthenes, Lysias, Hyperides, Aeschines, Lycurgus. Blass , Att. Ber. ; R. C. Jebb , The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus , 2nd edn. (1893); G....
thiasos Reference library
Robert Christopher Towneley Parker
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... were also subdivided into thiasoi by the early 4th cent. ( A. Andrewes , JHS 1961 , 9–12). It is not known whether these phratry thiasoi had the religious function that the name seems to suggest; possibly the hereditary ‘ thiasoi of Heracles ’ that are mentioned (Isaeus 9. 30), without further details, are instances of such phratry segments. A ‘law of Solon ’ ( Digest 47. 22. 4) guaranteed the right of association to groups of thiasōtai (of what type?). See clubs, greek . F. Poland , Geschichte des griechischen Vereinswesens (1909); W....
Attic Oratory Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation
..., ed. and tr. S. Usher , Warminster, UK, 1993. Dinarchus A Historical Commentary on Dinarchus , tr. I. Worthington , Ann Arbor, Mich., 1992. Hyperides Hyperides: Philippides and Athenogenes , tr. F. G. Kenyon , London, 1893. Isaeus Isaeus , tr. Sir W. Jones , Oxford, 1779 [vol. ix of Jones's collected works] · Isaeus , tr. E. S. Forster , Cambridge, Mass., 1927 [Loeb]. Isocrates To Nicocles , tr. Sir T. Elyot , London, 1531 · Nicocles [The Doctrinal of princes made by the noble oratour Isocrates ], tr. Sir T. Elyot , London, 1534 · To...
Didymus Quick reference
John Francis Lockwood, Robert Browning, and Nigel Guy Wilson
Who's Who in the Classical World
...geographical, historical, and biographical information, on Homer , Hesiod , Pindar , Bacchylides , Choerilus, Aeschylus , Sophocles , Ion of Chios, Euripides , Achaeus, Cratinus, Aristophanes (1) , Phrynichus , Eupolis , Menander , Thucydides , Antiphon , Isaeus , Isocrates , Aeschines , Demosthenes , Hyperides , Dinarchus . Much of the oldest material in the scholia to Pindar, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes is ultimately derived from Didymus. A papyrus fragment of his commentary on Demosthenes' Philippics illustrates his...
