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Bust of Isocrates, cast in the Pushkin Museum (photograph by shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Bust of Isocrates, cast in the Pushkin Museum (photograph by shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

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Isokrates

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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22 Werke

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

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