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Isocrates (/ aɪ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἰσοκράτης [isokrátɛ̂ːs]; 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.
Isocrates says of qualities of being a good orator, ""these things, I hold, require much study and are the task of a vigorous and imaginative mind" (sec. 17). Yun Lee Too says that this is what is called Isocrates "doxastic soul" or the soul with an aptitude for determining "doxa", or the common opinion. [ 5 ]
Isaeus (Greek: Ἰσαῖος Isaios; fl. early 4th century BC) was one of the ten Attic orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates [1] in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes [1] while working as a metic logographer (speechwriter) for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth.
De Optimo Genere Oratorum, "On the Best Kind of Orators", is a work from Marcus Tullius Cicero written in 46 BCE between two of his other works, Brutus and the Orator ad M. Brutum. Cicero attempts to explain why his view of oratorical style reflects true Atticism and is better than that of the Roman Atticists "who would confine the orator to ...
Attic orators (1 C, 18 P) Atticists (rhetoricians) (5 P) S. Sophists (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Ancient Greek rhetoricians"
Statesman, orator and historian. Pupil of Panaetius: Stilo (c. 154–74 BC) Grammarian and scholar Dionysius of Cyrene (fl. c. 125 BC) Leading figure in the Stoic school in Athens: Quintus Lucilius Balbus (fl. c. 125 BC) Stoic philosopher, and a pupil of Panaetius: Hecato of Rhodes (fl. 100 BC) Pupil of Panaetius, wrote about ethics Diotimus ...
An isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power. The term derives from Greek ἴσος meaning "equal" and κρατεῖν meaning "to have power", or "to rule".
Cicero (Orator ad Brutum 325) identifies two distinct modes of the Asiatic style: a more studied and symmetrical style (generally taken to mean "full of Gorgianic figures" [8]) employed by the historian Timaeus and the orators Menecles and Hierocles of Alabanda, and the rapid flow and ornate diction of Aeschines of Miletus and Aeschylus of Cnidus.