To Demonicus. To Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. To Philip. Archidamus

To Demonicus. To Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. To Philip. Archidamus

ISBN-10:
0674992318
ISBN-13:
9780674992313
Pub. Date:
01/01/1928
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674992318
ISBN-13:
9780674992313
Pub. Date:
01/01/1928
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
To Demonicus. To Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. To Philip. Archidamus

To Demonicus. To Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. To Philip. Archidamus

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Overview

The sophisticated schoolmaster.

The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. 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. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such as the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. Isocrates also wrote in gifted style essays on political questions, his main idea being a united Greece to conquer the Persian empire. 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 with Sparta. In the end he looked to Philip of Macedon, but died just as Philip’s supremacy in Greece began.

Twenty-one discourses by Isocrates survive; these include political essays, treatises on education and on ethics, and speeches for legal cases. Nine letters are also extant; they are concerned more with public than with private matters. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Isocrates is in three volumes. Volume I contains six discourses: To Demonicus, To Nicocles, Nicocles or The Cyprians, Panegyricus, To Philip, and Archidamus. Five are in Volume II: Areopagiticus, On the Peace, Panathenaicus, Against the Sophists, Antidosis. Volume III contains Evagoras, Helen, Busiris, Plataicus, Concerning the Team of Horses, Trapeziticus, Against Callimachus, Aegineticus, Against Lochites, and Against Euthynus, as well as the nine extant letters and a comprehensive index.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674992313
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1928
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #209
Edition description: 6th printing/1st pub.1928
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

George Norlin (1871–1942) was President of the University of Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

Bibliographical Addendum (1991)

Discourses

I. To Demonicus

II. To Nicocles

III. Nicocles or The Cyprians

IV. Panegyricus

V. To Philip

VI. Archidamus

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