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History & Society
- Born:
- 436 BCE Athens ancient Greece
- Died:
- 338 BCE Athens ancient Greece
- Subjects Of Study:
- Greece
Isocrates, (born 436 bce, Athens—died 338, Athens), ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Athens of his day. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato and numbered among its pupils men of eminence from all over the Greek world. Isocrates was born into a prosperous family shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 bce). He passed his youth in a gloomy period following the death of Pericles, the great Athenian leader and statesman, a period in which ...(100 of 1389 words)