such as democracy and courts of law. Isocrates starved himself to death, two years before his 100th birthday. Isocrates was born into a prosperous family...

Deudorix isocrates (sometimes Virachola isocrates), the common guava blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Johan Christian...

sophist himself, Isocrates sought to distinguish his school's pedagogical focus from other sophistic teachings. In particular, Isocrates wanted to establish...

proposal in his criticism of contemporary Western educational systems. Isocrates' paideia was quite influential, particularly in Athens. Its goal was to...

ancient philosophers. Aristotle and Isocrates were two of the first to see rhetoric in this light. In Antidosis, Isocrates states, "We have come together and...

Platyptilia isocrates is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Kashmir region of what was British India. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching...

culture in the Roman sphere. Isocrates was an influential classical Athenian orator. Growing up in Athens exposed Isocrates to educators such as Socrates...

been directed to Isocrates' teachings about philosophy and logos, and their partnership in generating an ethical, mindful polis. Isocrates does not provide...

v.32; Isocrates, Panegyricus, § 109; Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, xii. 76. Plutarch, Life of Lysander, 14. Pausasias, ix.1.4; Isocrates, Plataicus...

sympathies. In Athens, he became a pupil of Isocrates, and rapidly made progress in rhetoric; we are told that Isocrates used to say that Ephorus required the...