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Definition of Isocrates
1. Noun. Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isocrates
Literary usage of Isocrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Stay of Isocrates at Chios, 404-403 BC Isocrates alone, so the story went, dared
to rise and make an attempt to plead for him. Theramenes begged him to ..."
2. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"Portrait head of Isocrates. who having resolved to enter | the real contests des
... 1 The tone of the teaching d Isocrates harmonised with tie national ..."
3. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Harold North Fowler (1902)
"His father, Theodoras, was a wealthy Isocrates ^ute manufacturer, and Isocrates
received a good education. Most of the prominent sophists of the period are ..."
4. A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by Frank Byron Jevons (1894)
"Isocrates was a fashionable teacher. He takes a pride in having wealthy pupils,
... Ineffectual as were Isocrates' pamphlets from a political point of view, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The doubt would not, indeed, have been even plausible, had not Isocrates ...
The real vocation of Isocrates was discovered from the moment that he devoted ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Isocrates took no active part in the public life of Athens; ... Isocrates alone,
it is said, dared at that moment to plead for the life of his friend.1 ..."
7. Plato by David George Ritchie (1902)
"Plato seems to have had a personal liking for Isocrates; and some writer of
dialogues represented Isocrates and Plato conversing " about the poets " in ..."
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