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Isocrates

436–338 BC · Teacher of rhetoric

Too shy to speak in public, he wrote speeches to be read and ran the most famous school of rhetoric in Greece, teaching that eloquence and good judgement were one. He spent sixty years urging the Greeks to unite against Persia.

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Against Euthynus · Πρὸς Εὐθύνους ἀμάρτυρος
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Against Callimachus · Παραγραφή πρὸς Καλλίμαχον
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Against Lochites · Κατὰ Λοχίτου
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Concerning the Team of Horses · Περὶ τοῦ ζεύγους
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Trapeziticus · Τραπεζιτικός
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Aegineticus · Αἰγητικὸς
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
To Demonicus · Πρὸς Δημόνικον
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Against the Sophists · Κατὰ τῶν σοφιστῶν
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Helen · Ἑλένη
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Busiris · Βούσιρις
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Panegyricus · Πανηγυρικός
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Plataicus · Πλαταικός
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
To Nicocles · Πρὸς Νικόκλεα
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Nicocles, or The Cyprians · Νικόκλης ἢ Κύπριοι
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Evagoras · Εὐαγόρας
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook
Archidamus · Ἀρχίδαμος
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
On the Peace · Περὶ εἰρήνης
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Areopagiticus · Ἀρεοπαγιτικός
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Antidosis · Περὶ ἀντιδόσεως
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
To Philip · Φίλιππος
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Panathenaicus · Παναθηναικός
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Norlin
Letters
Isocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishLarue Van Hook

Twenty-one speeches and nine letters, in Greek beside English.

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