isegoria

Aeschylus in the Suppliants (now dated after 468 B.C.) names the free mouth as a sign of freedom, whereas Herodotus uses the word isegoria (equality in freedom of speech) to indicate Athenian democracy (V, 78).

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Marcus Aurelius (I, 14) was grateful to one of his teachers for having introduced him to the idea of isegoria in politics: it is difficult to imagine what he really meant.

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In the fourth century parrhesia became more popu - lar than isegoria.

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After the fourth century B.C. isegoria remained a very respectable though not a very common word.

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These people emphasized the right to say all that they wanted (parrhesia) rather than equality of freedom of speech (isegoria).

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Epicurean used isegoria in connection with the good king, and Philo considered isegoria to be the quality of the serious man.

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He used isegoria to describe the state of affairs prevailing in the Achaean

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The two words parrhesia and isegoria point to the conflict between democracy as liberty and democracy as equality that was to concern later political thinkers.

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But in the fifth century isegoria, like isonomia, came to mean democracy.

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Demosthenes uses parrhesia twenty - six times as against three or possibly four instances of isegoria; Isocrates has parrhesia twenty-two times, isegoria only once; Aeschines parrhesia eight times, but isegoria once.

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