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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... One of the great orators of Athens, distinguished as a teacher of eloquence. He was born in 436 bc and died in 338 bc at the age of...
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
... ( 436–338 bc ) Greek philosopher and follower of Socrates . An important source for knowledge of fourth-century Greece, Isocrates was an orator and teacher of rhetoric, and known mainly as a historian, commentator on current affairs, educationalist, and adviser to one and all. He is praised, perhaps ironically, as a rhetorician by Plato at the end of the Phaedrus , but his own down-to-earth prescriptions for education, avoiding unnecessary speculative flights, suggest that he was more of a political realist than Plato...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
...inclined to take Isocrates at face value, ascribing to him the weak voice and stage fright that he asserts he has; the sense is that Isocrates would have orated publicly if he could have (e.g., Dionysius of Halicarnassus Isocrates 1; Plutarch Moralia 837a; Ober, pp. 113–114). But this conclusion wrongly understands rhetoric as an oral art, and thus sees Isocrates as the failed orator. Phonocentric Athens quite naturally fostered the assumption that rhetoric must be oral, and it is understandable that later scholars might think that Isocrates occasionally...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...ruled it out for the moment. Shortly after, in Areopagiticus , Isocrates advocated return to a sober constitution under which the Areopagus would exercise its ancient general supervision of all aspects of life. The treatise must have made a curious impression on his countrymen. Certainly by 353 Isocrates was on the defensive. By then he had made a fortune unprecedented for his profession, and he had become liable to frequent trierarchies ; challenged in 354/3 to an antidosis , Isocrates had emerged from the court unsuccessful and, imagining himself as...
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George Law Cawkwell
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...a topical plea for the establishment of the Second Athenian Confederacy . One of Isocrates' most distinguished pupils was Timotheus (2) whom at some stage Isocrates had accompanied on campaign and served by writing his dispatches to the Athenian people, and as a result of Timotheus' successes Athens was able in 375 to make the peace which embodied the principle of the shared hegemony. Despite the fact that Persia's position in the peace was unchanged, Isocrates lauded it, perhaps partly on personal grounds, and began to address pleas, very similar...
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George Law Cawkwell
Who's Who in the Classical World
...a topical plea for the establishment of the Second Athenian Confederacy. One of Isocrates' most distinguished pupils was Timotheus, the Athenian general, whom at some stage Isocrates had accompanied on campaign and served by writing his dispatches to the Athenian people, and as a result of Timotheus' successes Athens was able in 375 to make the peace which embodied the principle of the shared hegemony. Despite the fact that Persia's position in the peace was unchanged, Isocrates lauded it, perhaps partly on personal grounds, and began to address pleas, very...
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George Law Cawkwell
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
...a topical plea for the establishment of the Second Athenian Confederacy. One of Isocrates’ most distinguished pupils was the Athenian general Timotheus , whom at some stage Isocrates had accompanied on campaign and served by writing his dispatches to the Athenian people, and as a result of Timotheus’ successes Athens was able in 375 to make the peace which embodied the principle of the shared hegemony. Despite the fact that Persia’s position in the peace was unchanged, Isocrates lauded it, perhaps partly on personal grounds, and began to address pleas, very...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
... ( 436–338 bc ) Athenian orator, of great importance for his influence on later education, oratory, and writing. He has been admired by some for his prescience in ushering in the Hellenistic age with its new political attitudes and values, and condemned by others as a sycophant more concerned with his own well-being than that of his country. 1. Physically weak, Isocrates played no direct part in the politics of his city, but his written speeches aimed to influence public opinion and they provide a valuable commentary on the issues of the day. He was...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
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