Isocrates

[ ahy-sok-ruh-teez ]

noun

1. 436–338 b.c., Athenian orator.

Isocrates

/ aɪˈsɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

1. Isocrates436 bc338 bcMGreekAthenianPHILOSOPHY: rhetoricianEDUCATION: teacher 436–338 bc , Athenian rhetorician and teacher

Example Sentences

As it happened, a brilliant young student in Plato’s school wrote a short work in response to Isocrates’ criticisms: the Protrepticus, a text that became famous in antiquity.

From Scientific American

Aristotle needed to attract pupils—and while his rival Isocrates was teaching rhetoric, the Lyceum needed to be able to compete.

From Literature

And it is paralleled by Isocrates, a contemporary of Plato, in those words spoken by the King Nicocles when addressing his governors, “You should be to others what you think I should be to you.”

From Project Gutenberg

His style is the very opposite of that of Isocrates and the rhetoricians.

From Project Gutenberg

The only good authorities as to this point are the orators Lycurgus and Isocrates, who mention the law prescribing the recitation, but do not say when or by whom it was enacted.

From Project Gutenberg