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Meaning of "isocrates"

Isocrates - a noun that refers to a prominent ancient Greek rhetorician and teacher of philosophy, known for his influence on rhetoric and education in Greece

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Isocrates criticized the flatterers who had brought ruin to their public affairs.
The first one focuses on the metadiscoursive reflections found in the speech antidosis of isocrates.
Isocrates had a great talent for this since he lacked confidence in public speaking.
He is also believed to have been the teacher of Isocrates.
Isocrates develops his ideas on autonomia whenever the common peace is newly concluded.
We are also just beginning to read Isocrates and Terence each twice a week.
Isocrates sets up a school of rhetoric in Chios.
I did not succeed so far in locating in Isocrates a passage exactly corresponding to this quote.
Isocrates was an influential classical Athenian orator.
He was a pupil of the philosopher Plato and of the rhetor Isocrates.
Virachola isocrates is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.
Logos and power in Isocrates and Aristotle.
Isocrates helped in making Athens one of the leaders in Greece through his paideia.
Now Plato was a friend of Isocrates.
Isocrates has also noted that a speaker 's character was essential to the persuasive effect of a speech.

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This work proposes to translate the panegyricus, a speech by the athenian isocrates.
Isocrates was born to a wealthy family in Athens and received a first-rate education.
As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school.
Isocrates defended Philip 's Greek origins but did not think the same of his people.
Instead, they would hire people like Isocrates to write speeches for them.
The school of Isocrates produced the orators and tragedians, Theodectes and Aphareus.
According to Aristotle, his students included Isocrates.
Even the mild-tempered Isocrates felt that the Phocian mercenaries were better off dead than alive.
Didactic poetry found its model in the " To Demonikos " ascribed to Isocrates.
Theon also wrote commentaries on Xenophon, Isocrates and Demosthenes, and treatises on style.
After this, Isocrates delimits the Taulantii state only to the lands along the Adriatic.
In Italy, he discovered manuscripts of the rhetorician Isocrates at the Ambrosian and Laurentian libraries.
In response, Isocrates founded his school of Rhetoric around 393 BCE.
BCE According to legend, Isocrates starved himself to death.
With time, Hellene, to use the words of Isocrates, became a trait of intellect, not race.

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