Theodectes
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Theodectes (; c. 380c. 340 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet, of Phaselis in Lycia.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Lycia
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- orator
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Plato
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- name in native language
- Θεοδέκτης
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- date of death
- 0340-00-00
- date of birth
- 0380-01-01
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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Theodectes (; c. 380c. 340 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet, of Phaselis in Lycia.
==Life== He lived in the period which followed the Peloponnesian War. Along with the continual decay of political and religious life, tragedy sank more and more into mere rhetorical display. The school of Isocrates produced the orators and tragedians, Theodectes and Aphareus. He was also a pupil of Plato and an intimate friend of Aristotle. He at first wrote speeches for the law courts though he soon moved on to compose tragedies with success. He spent most of his life at Athens, and was buried on the sacred road to Eleusis. The inhabitants of Phaselis honored him with a statue, which was decorated with garlands by Alexander the Great on his way to the East.
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