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	ISOCRATES - LoveToKnow Article on ISOCRATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Isocrates alone, it is said, dared at that moment to plead for the life of his friend.2 Whatever may be the worth of the story, it would scarcely have connected itself with the name of a man to whose traditional character it was repugnant.
		Isocrates is said to have taught his Athenian pupils gratuitously, and to have taken money only from aliens; but, as might have been expected, the fame of his school exposed him to attacks on the ground of his gains, which his enemies studiously exaggerated.
		Isocrates is an orator in the larger sense of the Greek word rhetor; but his real distinction consists in the fact that he was the first Greek who gave an artistic finish to literary rhetoric.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IS/ISOCRATES.htm (5572 words)

	Isocrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isocrates (436–338 BC), Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators.
		Isocrates' professional career is said to have begun as a logographer, or a hired courtroom speech writer.
		Because of Plato's attacks on the Sophists, this school of rhetoric and philosophy came to be viewed as unethical and deceitful.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isocrates (504 words)

	JAC Online: 13.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Isocrates now endorses, it seems, a democratic pedagogy consistent with positions taken by contemporary epistemic rhetoricians, of which John Poulako's defense of sophistic emancipatory discourse is exemplary: "The liberation of discourse entails exposing the motives and ways of the established order, critiquing social convention, and demystifying the tradition" (101).
		Isocrates was bent on returning rhetoric to politics because he could see in Athens' floundering political fortunes, no less than in Plato's program for correcting them, an end to history and of an interest in history and thus an end to discourse.
		Isocrates seeks a broad context for philosophy by shaping it within the written text for the political education of the citizen; Plato adapts philosophy for the narrower purpose of building private knowledge through the practice of spoken dialectics ("Isocrates the Beautiful" 116).
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/13.1/Articles/9.htm (6601 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Isocrates
		Isocrates (436-338 bc), Athenian orator and teacher, whose writings on politics and education in 4th-century bc Greece are of great historical...
		Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
		He was a pupil of Plato and of the orator Isocrates of...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Isocrates.html (75 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Poulakos and Depew, Isocrates and Civic Education
		Isocrates regarded the beautifully written speech, disseminated by the powerful technology of writing, as having immense potential to transform all aspects of the existing landscape of civic education and political life.
		Isocrates presumes that he can persuade his fellow citizens of the justice of his cause and solicits their genuine gratitude for the way in which he teaches arts that actually sustain the regime.
		Isocrates, it seems, is unwilling to concede the public sphere and public education to the fractious world of oral discourse and to disappear, like Plato, behind a set of dialogical masks.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/expouiso.html (5992 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume III, Number 6
		Isocrates' criticism of this group also adds an element which is one of the most basic and one of the oldest: not only are their words trivial, but these men do not (and indeed cannot) demonstrate their usefulness through actions based upon their words (10.9).
		Isocrates seems to say here that her beauty is her power; this is recognized by all, and affects all who become captivated by her: Zeus, Theseus, Paris, and the suitors.
		Isocrates is aware of the Euripidean version of Helen's defense, as sections 67-9 show, with their allusion to Helen's claim that Greece should be grateful to her for bringing victory and freedom to the Greeks (cf.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V3N6/papillon.html (6953 words)

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		Isocrates was an influential teacher, perhaps the most so in the ancient history of rhetoric.
		Isocrates was the father of liberal education as we know it.
		Isocrates' rhetorical conception What is rhetoric: the worker or science of persuasion which is a branch of philosophy able to alter our perception of things as we dispute with others and seek knowledge.
	bradley.bradley.edu /~ell/newisoc.html (1021 words)

	Isocrates, from Lives of the Ten Orators, at Peitho's Web
		ISOCRATES was the son of Theodorus, of Erchia, reckoned among the middle class of citizens, and a man who kept servants under him to make flutes, by which he got so much money as enabled him not only to bring up his children after the most genteel manner, but likewise to maintain a choir.
		When Isocrates was come to man's estate, he meddled with nothing of state affairs, both because he had a very weak voice and because he was something timorous; and besides these two impediments, his estate was much impaired by the loss of a great part of his patrimony in the war with the Lacedaemonians.
		There are interred Isocrates and his father Theodorus, his mother and her sister Anaco, his adoptive son Aphareus, Socrates the son of Anaco, Theodorus his brother, bearing his father's name, his grandsons, the sons of his adopted Aphareus, and his wife Plathane, the mother of Aphareus.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/plu10or/pluisoc.htm (1807 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Papillon, Isocrates II
		Isocrates presents one of his main ideas in this speech, and one of the central ideas of his career: the need for Greece to unite in a panhellenic campaign against Persia.
		Isocrates thus celebrates the past of Athens and argues for a joint leadership for Greece between Athens and Sparta.
		Isocrates addresses the newly signed peace treaty in 355 that settled the Social War between Athens and its allies.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/expapiso.html (1431 words)

	Isocrates, by John M. Crossett: The New Rambler No. 5
		The kind of thing which Isocrates did--as we shall see--took form in political reality, not merely in ideas; and so those of you who believe that reality is more important than truth will easily credit him with being the more important man. If importance be measured by influence, you will be right.
		Although Isocrates turned to rhetoric--to that "knack," that form of "cookery," so well analyzed and despised by Plato--he knew enough philosophy to try to redeem it from the vices which Plato remorselessly catalogued.
		Well, Isocrates, then--if I am right--tried to re-define philosophy: for Socrates and Plato it has been a dialogue plus dialectic, concerned solely with ethics and the state of the individual soul and concentrating on the state of the soul in the afterlife.
	www.avalon.net /~rambler/NR5.html (1092 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.37
		In Isocrates' account, Busiris becomes founder of Egyptian civilization, the author of a model constitution in the manner of Plato's Republic, and an exemplum of the sort of semi-divine figure that is to be embraced in a morally beneficial mythology.
		Isocrates disingenuously has Polycrates hoist on his own petard inasmuch as Polycrates' boasting was integral to the force of his own rhetorical paradoxes.
		Isocrates' own morality might be brought into question when he notes that those eulogizing people must demonstrate that more good qualities attach to them than they really have.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-09-37.html (1890 words)

	Rhetoric Society Quarterly: Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
		Isocrates' brand of education apparently did not focus on the theoretical precepts of rhetoric, but instead immersed students in Athenian political and ceremonial oratory and encouraged creative mimesis.
		To study philosophia, as denned by Isocrates, is to acquire a working knowledge of culture and to develop one's practical wisdom, both activities that Aristotle places outside the scope of rhetoric.
		As Isocrates says in his speech to Nicoclcs, logos is the leader or hegemon, meaning that it is always prior to any particular speaker or audience, being the condition of their existence and the determinate of their particularity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4142/is_200410/ai_n9464002 (1226 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Augustine and Isocrates
		This is that Isocrates with whom we are concerned in the present study, who furnishes the general background for appreciating the life and work of St. Augustine.
		Isocrates stands as the representative of the ancient Paideia, patterned in the deeds and enshrined in the writings of the national and civic heroes.
		Isocrates, we may say, has lived on in "modernity" as such, from Petrarch, Descartes and Bacon, to the twin portals of Hume and Kant, and on to the schools of James and Dewey in contemporary America.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3011 (7386 words)

	Classical Period - Politics
		Isocrates was born in 436, not long before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, and died - of natural causes or, some say, by his own hand - in 338, the year of the battle of Chaeronea.
		Written in 380, this contains Isocrates' political creed, from which he never wavered in any of his speeches: the union of all Hellenes, devoid of envy and hatred, in a campaign against their natural enemy, Persia, and with Athens at the helm.
		Isocrates thought, lastly, that a campaign against Persia would resolve all the Hellenes' problems - political, social and economic.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/culture/2412isokrates.html (461 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume I, Number 1
		(2) Isocrates may indeed be overly verbose and overdo figures of speech and the like, but there is plenty worthy of commendation, not least being his ability to control a vast array of subject-matter in the longer works and the exactness he shows in such things as the composition of his periods.
		Whilst Isocrates' political pamphlets (together with his political acumen or lack thereof) have been the subject of the most scrutiny, his letters, from a stylistic viewpoint, have been relatively neglected.
		Although for a long time Isocrates' epistles were regarded as spurious, this view no longer has credence, (5) and I accept that they are genuine even the notorious first and third.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V1N1/worthington.html (1892 words)

	Isocrates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Isocrates believes those values are useful, but not
		Isocrates realized that his relativistic value system did not have the
		Isocrates was biased against democracy, although he didn't like to admit it.
	people.morehead-st.edu /fs/w.willis/isocrates.html (429 words)

	Isocrates Improves Our Poetry
		If he were instructing poets in our age, Isocrates would steer them away from purely personal themes and toward topics that affect the well-being of the entire state and its citizens.
		Isocrates taught poets to involve themselves in issues of the day as well as ongoing themes of personal responsibility to state and society.
		Isocrates was especially fond of working with sounds through alliteration, meter, rhyme, etc., to heighten the aesthetic impact when read.
	pages.prodigy.net /sol.magazine/works09-03.htm (698 words)

	Harvard University Press/Isocrates, On the Peace. Areopagiticus. Against the Sophists. Antidosis. Panathenaicus
		The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BC is indisputable.
		Isocrates also wrote in gifted style essays on political questions, his main idea being a united Greece to conquer the Persian empire.
		Twenty-one discourses by Isocrates survive; these include political essays, treatises on education and on ethics, and speeches for legal cases.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L229.html (275 words)

	The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression.
		Isocrates makes written culture the basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of Athenian hegemony.
		In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the sophist, combatting the negative stereotype of the greedy sophist who corrupts the city's youth in his portrait of himself as teacher of rhetoric.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=2238 (145 words)

	Isocrates: Sources
		"Isocrates, the Chian intellectuals, and the political context of the Euthydemus." Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (1999): 1-16.
		Heilbrunn, G. "The Composition of Isocrates' Helen." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 107 (1977): 147-159.
		"Isocrates' Use of Narrative in the Evagoras: Epideictic Rhetoric and Moral Action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (1987): 317–328.
	www.wfu.edu /~zulick/300/bibisocrates.html (447 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Isocrates I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Isocrates' identity as a teacher was an important mode of political activity, through which he sought to instruct his students, foreign rulers, and his fellow Athenians.
		He was a controversial figure who championed a role for the written word in fourth-century politics and thought.
		Isocrates' speeches are introduced and translated by David C. Mirhady, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and Yun Lee Too, Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0292752385 (356 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By contrast, Isocrates, despite his considerable reputation in antiquity and the Renaissance as an educator, became a marginal figure in the intellectual history of the West.
		Casting Isocrates and Aristotle as opponents in a debate over the character, resources, and ends of rhetorical education, Ekaterina V. Haskins argues that much of what Aristotle had to say about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse in the life of a Greek city-state may have been an implicit reaction to Isocrates.
		The contrast between Isocrates and Aristotle is brought into sharper relief by the author's consideration of cultural, political, and intellectual contexts in which these thinkers articulated their views.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570035261?v=glance (1072 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.43
		The general Introduction to Isocrates provides an overview of overarching themes of his work and general notes on his style and rhetorical technique.
		I and II does not follow the numerical order of Isocrates' speeches, the logic behind it is probably clearer than that of the Loeb translations of Norlin and van Hook, which the two volumes aspire to supersede.
		The difficulty of the scholars in classifying Isocrates' speeches is noted on pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-02-43.html (979 words)

	Isocrates Biography / Biography of Isocrates Biography Biography
		Isocrates (436-338 BC) was the fourth of the famous 10 Attic Greek orators.
		Isocrates was one of five children of Theodorus of Erchia, a flute manufacturer, and his wife Heduto.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-isocrates/index.html (167 words)

	Isocrates
		As if that isn’t bad enough Isocrates explains that although these professors set themselves up to be masters and dispensers of goods as precious as happiness and virtue, they are still not ashamed of asking a price for them that is more than insignificant.
		According to Isocrates there is no "science" which can teach humans to do under all circumstances the things which will insure their happiness and success.
		The last section of his letter Isocrates devotes to the "so-called art of the oratory..." claiming that the Sophists "…profess to teach how to conduct law-suits, picking out the most discredited of terms, which enemies...might have been expected to employ."
	www.public.asu.edu /~kheenan/courses/472/f02/isocrates.htm (564 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Isocrates congratulates Philip on the fact that he had not attempted "to become a tyrant in his native city", Argos, (the mythical origin of the Macedonian Royal House) but, "Leaving the area of Greece entirely"
		d) Isocrates, the "apostle of Hellenism" clearly excludes the Macedonians from the Hellenes.
		Peter Green writes that "Isocrates had unwittingly supplied him with the propaganda line he needed.
	www.macedon.org /anmacs/isocrates.htm (185 words)

	6) GREEK CLAIM: ISOKRATIS (ISOCRATES)
		Isocrates had, unwittingly, supplied him with the propaganda-line he needed.
		Isocrates expanded the term Hellene to include, no racial descent, but mode of thought, and those who partook of Attic culture, rather than those who had a common descent were called Hellene.
		Isocrates, in the 'Philip' praises them for not having imposed their kingship on the Hellenes, to whom the kingship is always oppressive, and for having gone among foreigners to establish it.
	faq.macedonia.org /history/ancient.macedonia/ancient6.html (1726 words)

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		Howland, R. The Attack on Isocrates in the Phaedrus.
		The Influence of Isocrates on Ciccero, Dionysius and Aristides.
		The Rhetoric of Isocrates and Its Cultural Ideal.
	www.rhetjournal.net /ClssclRhet.html (2127 words)

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