02018nam 2200361 450 99621486070331620231108183945.00-674-99411-6(CKB)3820000000012043(NjHacI)993820000000012043(EXLCZ)99382000000001204320231108d1945 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEvagoras. Helen. Busiris. Plataicus. Concerning the Team of Horses. Trapeziticus. Against Callimachus. Aegineticus. Against Lochites. Against Euthynus. Letters /IsocratesCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,1945.1 online resource (544 pages)The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to Athens and established there a free school of 'philosophia' involving a practical education of the whole mind, character, judgment, and mastery of language. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such as the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. Isocrates also wrote in gifted style essays on political questions, his main idea being a united Greece to conquer the Persian empire. Thus in his fine Panegyricus written for the 100th Olympi.LettersEnglish lettersLetters.English letters.808.86Isocrates186464NjHacINjHaclBOOK996214860703316Evagoras. Helen. Busiris. Plataicus. Concerning the Team of Horses. Trapeziticus. Against Callimachus. Aegineticus. Against Lochites. Against Euthynus. Letters2303853UNISA