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Also known as Isokratēs, Isokrates

Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works.

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Isocrates was a male orator and writer from Classical Athens, where he was born in 436 BCE and died in 338 BCE. He worked in the field of philosophy and wrote in Ancient Greek. His manner of death was suicide. He was a student of Prodicus, Gorgias, Tisias, and Socrates.

Among his students were Theopompus, Ephorus, Timaeus, and Asclepiades of Tragilus. His works include *The orations*, *Oratione d'Isocrate à Demonico figlivolo d'Ipponico*, *Oeuvres complètes*, *De la divination de Cicéron*, and *Oratio Isocratis de officiis*. He is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Works
256

Top works

  • Isocratous apanta ...
  • The orations
  • Oratione d'Isocrate à Demonico figlivolo d'Ipponico
  • Oeuvres complètes
  • De la divination de Cicéron

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
123

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Discourses 13. Against the Sophists

    · 1929 · cited 13x

  2. Discourses 3. Nicocles, or the Cyprians

    · 1928 · cited 7x

  3. Discourses 15. Antidosis

    · 1929 · cited 6x

  4. Discourses 4. Panegyricus

    · 1928 · cited 4x

  5. Discourses 8. On the Peace

    · 1929 · cited 2x

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Quotes

  • μηδέποτε μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ποιήσας ἔλπιζε λήσειν· καὶ γὰρ ἂν τοὺς ἄλλους λάθῃς, σεαυτῷ συνειδήσεις. [. . .] τὰς ἡδονὰς θήρευε τὰς μετὰ δόξης· τέρψις γὰρ σὺν τῷ καλῷ μὲν ἄριστον, ἄνευ δὲ τούτου κάκιστον.
  • εὐλαβοῦ τὰς διαβολάς, κἂν ψευδεῖς ὦσιν· οἱ γὰρ πολλοὶ τὴν μὲν ἀλήθειαν ἀγνοοῦσι, πρὸς δὲ τὴν δόξαν ἀποβλέπουσιν. ἅπαντα δόκει ποιεῖν ὡς μηδένα λήσων· καὶ γὰρ ἂν παραυτίκα κρύψῃς, ὕστερον ὀφθήσει. μάλιστα δ᾿ ἂν εὐδοκιμοίης, εἰ φαίνοιο ταῦτα μὴ πράττων, ἃ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἂν πράττουσιν ἐπιτιμῴης.
  • ἐὰν ᾖς φιλομαθής, ἔσει πολυμαθής.
  • ἃ μὲν ἐπίστασαι, ταῦτα διαφύλαττε ταῖς μελέταις, ἃ δὲ μὴ μεμάθηκας, προσλάμβανε ταῖς ἐπιστήμαις· ὁμοίως γὰρ αἰσχρὸν ἀκούσαντα χρήσιμον λόγον μὴ μαθεῖν καὶ διδόμενόν τι ἀγαθὸν παρὰ τῶν φίλων μὴ λαβεῖν. κατανάλισκε τὴν ἐκ τῷ βίῳ σχολὴν εἰς τὴν τῶν λόγων φιληκοΐαν· οὕτω γὰρ τὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις χαλεπῶς εὑρημένα συμβήσεταί σοι ῥᾳδίως μανθάνειν.
  • ἡγοῦ τῶν ἀκουσμάτων πολλὰ πολλῶν εἶναι χρημάτων κρείττω· τὰ μὲν γὰρ ταχέως ἀπολείπει, τὰ δὲ πάντα τὸν χρόνον παραμένει· σοφία γὰρ μόνον τῶν κτημάτων ἀθάνατον. μὴ κατόκνει μακρὰν ὁδὸν πορεύεσθαι πρὸς τοὺς διδάσκειν τι χρήσιμον ἐπαγγελομένους· αἰσχρὸν γὰρ τοὺς μὲν ἐμπόρους τηλικαῦτα πελάγη διαπερᾶν ἕνεκα τοῦ πλείω ποιῆσαι τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν οὐσίαν, τοὺς δὲ νεωτέρους μηδὲ τὰς κατὰ γῆν πορείας ὑπομένειν ἐπὶ τῷ βελτίω καταστῆσαι τὴν αὑτῶν διάνοιαν.
  • ἡδέως μὲν ἔχε πρὸς ἅπαντας, χρῶ δὲ τοῖς βελτίστοις.

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Key facts

Person.name
Isocrates
Person.image
Isocrates pushkin.jpg
Person.caption
Bust of Isocrates; plaster cast in the Pushkin Museum of the bust formerly at Villa Albani, Rome
Person.native_name
Ἰσοκράτης
Person.native_name_lang
grc
Person.birth_date
436 BC
Person.birth_place
Athens
Person.death_date
338 BC (aged 98)
Person.death_place
Athens

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Isocrates, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Isocratis Orationes :commentariis instructae. 1

Isocratis Orationes :commentariis instructae. 1

Works. 5

Works. 5

Works. 3

Works. 3

Jsocratis Panegyricvs, Areopagiticvs, Ad Philippvm, Et Archidamvs

Jsocratis Panegyricvs, Areopagiticvs, Ad Philippvm, Et Archidamvs

Isocratis oratoris disertissimi Paraenesis

Isocratis oratoris disertissimi Paraenesis

Works. 7

Works. 7

Selected speeches. 1, Demonicus, Euagoras, Areopagiticus

Selected speeches. 1, Demonicus, Euagoras, Areopagiticus

Isocratis Opera Omnia :Graece et Latine. 2

Isocratis Opera Omnia :Graece et Latine. 2

Works. 2

Works. 2

Isocrate’s works. 2

Isocrate’s works. 2

Phraseologia Isocratikē Hellēnikolatinē = Phraseologia Isocratis Graecolatina: Id Est, Phraseon Sive locutionum, elegantiarumve Isocraticarum Loci...

Phraseologia Isocratikē Hellēnikolatinē = Phraseologia Isocratis Graecolatina: Id Est, Phraseon Sive locutionum, elegantiarumve Isocraticarum Loci...

Jsocratis Panegyricvs, Areopagiticvs, Ad Philippvm, Et Archidamvs :Cvm Jnterpretatione Latina

Jsocratis Panegyricvs, Areopagiticvs, Ad Philippvm, Et Archidamvs :Cvm Jnterpretatione Latina

˜ Des Isocrates Panathenaikos

˜ Des Isocrates Panathenaikos

Roma, Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina, Manoscritti, ms.239

Roma, Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina, Manoscritti, ms.239

Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parmense, Ms. Parm. 200

Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parmense, Ms. Parm. 200

Isocratis Sententiae Graecolatinae: additis... Annotationibus, notatísque locis, ad quos illae... non incommodè referri posse uideantur = Isokratēs Gnōmologētheis

Isocratis Sententiae Graecolatinae: additis... Annotationibus, notatísque locis, ad quos illae... non incommodè referri posse uideantur = Isokratēs Gnōmologētheis

Apophthegmata Graeciae sapientum... Eadem by Ausionium cum scholijs Erasmi... cum eiusdem scholijs auctis revogniti... Isocratis Paraenesis (etc.)

Apophthegmata Graeciae sapientum... Eadem by Ausionium cum scholijs Erasmi... cum eiusdem scholijs auctis revogniti... Isocratis Paraenesis (etc.)

Isocratis oratoris praestantissimi Oratio panegyrica: omnium eius orationum elegantissima: & doctissima/nuper per Ioannem Mariam Catanaeum in latium summa celeritate & pari iudicio translata

Isocratis oratoris praestantissimi Oratio panegyrica: omnium eius orationum elegantissima: & doctissima/nuper per Ioannem Mariam Catanaeum in latium summa celeritate & pari iudicio translata

Isocratus hapanta = Isocratis scripta que nunc extant omnia

Isocratus hapanta = Isocratis scripta que nunc extant omnia

Isocrates

Isocrates

Isocratis Sermones

Isocratis Sermones

Isocrates

Isocrates

Phraseologia (ejus) graecolatina [Texto impreso] :]id est, phraseon sive locutionum, elegantiarum ne Isocraticarum loci

Phraseologia (ejus) graecolatina [Texto impreso] :]id est, phraseon sive locutionum, elegantiarum ne Isocraticarum loci

Isokratous apanta, dia Ieronymou Bolfiou epanorthotenta te ... [Texto impreso] =]Isocratis scripta, quae nunc extant, omnia, per Hieronymum Vvolfium Oetingensem, summo labore & diligentia correcta, & de integro conuersa ...

Isokratous apanta, dia Ieronymou Bolfiou epanorthotenta te ... [Texto impreso] =]Isocratis scripta, quae nunc extant, omnia, per Hieronymum Vvolfium Oetingensem, summo labore & diligentia correcta, & de integro conuersa ...

Orationes, cum praef. Guilielmi Dindorfii (graece).

Orationes, cum praef. Guilielmi Dindorfii (graece).

Orations and epistles made by Greek in the Italian idiom by G. M. Labanti. Corrected in this 2. ed. of new additions (etc.)

Orations and epistles made by Greek in the Italian idiom by G. M. Labanti. Corrected in this 2. ed. of new additions (etc.)

Isocrates works, over. by Adolph Heinrich Christian.

Isocrates works, over. by Adolph Heinrich Christian.

Orationes omnes, quae quidem ad Nostram Aetatem Pervenerunt, Una Et Viginti Numero, Una Cum Novem ejusdem Epistolis, e Graeco in Latinum conversae, Per Hieronymum Wolfium

Orationes omnes, quae quidem ad Nostram Aetatem Pervenerunt, Una Et Viginti Numero, Una Cum Novem ejusdem Epistolis, e Graeco in Latinum conversae, Per Hieronymum Wolfium

Areopagus or patriotic idea to his fellow citizens of Athens about the necessity of a moral and state improvement

Areopagus or patriotic idea to his fellow citizens of Athens about the necessity of a moral and state improvement

Works. 3

Works. 3

Isokratus hapanta = Isocratis scripta, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia, graecolatina, postremo recognita

Isokratus hapanta = Isocratis scripta, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia, graecolatina, postremo recognita

Works: Greek and German. 1, Panegyrikos and Philippos

Works: Greek and German. 1, Panegyrikos and Philippos

Isokratus hapanta = Isocratis scripta, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia, Graecolatina, postremo recognita

Isokratus hapanta = Isocratis scripta, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia, Graecolatina, postremo recognita

Isokratus Hapanta :Qvae Qvidem Nvnc Extant, omnia, Graecolatina, postremo recognita: Hieronymo VVolfio Oetingensi interprete. Cum ... accurato Indice = Isocratis scripta

Isokratus Hapanta :Qvae Qvidem Nvnc Extant, omnia, Graecolatina, postremo recognita: Hieronymo VVolfio Oetingensi interprete. Cum ... accurato Indice = Isocratis scripta

From the Duties of a Monarch to Nicocles, King to Salamin

From the Duties of a Monarch to Nicocles, King to Salamin

Isocratis Orationes. 2

Isocratis Orationes. 2

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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • Early life and influences
  • Career
  • Pedagogy
  • Panhellenism and the rise of Philip II
  • Philosophy of rhetoric
  • Publications
  • Antidosis
  • Panathenaicus
  • Major orations
  • Legacy
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works.

Greek rhetoric is commonly traced to Corax of Syracuse, who first formulated a set of rhetorical rules in the fifth century BC. His pupil Tisias was influential in the development of the rhetoric of the courtroom, and by some accounts was the teacher of Isocrates. Within two generations, rhetoric had become an important art, its growth driven by social and political changes such as democracy and courts of law. Isocrates starved himself to death, reportedly out of disappointment with the loss of Greek liberty following the Battle of Chaeronea, two years before his 100th birthday.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isocrates” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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