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  • Athenian orator who addressed political topics and was an influential teacher of rhetoric.

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  • noun Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC)

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  • But the air of amused compassion with which the lusty Down-Easter, who had made me feel what the _digito monstrari_ was, now looked down on me, raised a feeling of resentment and self-depreciation which left me in no mood to make a brilliant show of scholarship in construing my "Isocrates" that morning.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • The Athenian orator Isocrates, now in his nineties, had in fact been advocating such a Panhellenic crusade for decades, though mostly in hope of giving the Greeks someone to fight besides each other.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • But the aged Isocrates saw at last in Philip a leader with the military might and authority to unite the Greeks in a grand campaign against Persia to avenge the atrocities of the past and liberate the Greek cities on the Aegean coast of Asia from Persian rule.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Isocrates: Athenian orator and early advocate of a united Greek invasion of Persia.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The Athenian orator Isocrates, now in his nineties, had in fact been advocating such a Panhellenic crusade for decades, though mostly in hope of giving the Greeks someone to fight besides each other.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • But the aged Isocrates saw at last in Philip a leader with the military might and authority to unite the Greeks in a grand campaign against Persia to avenge the atrocities of the past and liberate the Greek cities on the Aegean coast of Asia from Persian rule.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • They supported centers of higher education that laid the foundations of Western thought: first Plato's Academy and Isocrates' school of rhetoric; then Aristotle's Lyceum, Zeno's Stoa and Epicurus' Garden.

    Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

  • Isocrates: Athenian orator and early advocate of a united Greek invasion of Persia.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Isocrates: Athenian orator and early advocate of a united Greek invasion of Persia.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • But the aged Isocrates saw at last in Philip a leader with the military might and authority to unite the Greeks in a grand campaign against Persia to avenge the atrocities of the past and liberate the Greek cities on the Aegean coast of Asia from Persian rule.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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