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Works IsocratesPevná vazba The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. After setting up a school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to…
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The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. 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. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators.
Isocrates also wrote in gifted style essays on political questions, his main idea being a united Greece to conquer the Persian empire. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such as the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. Thus in his fine Panegyricus (written for the 100th Olympiad gathering in 380) he urged that the leadership should be granted to Athens, possibly in conjunction