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Isocrates (436–338 BC)| Greek rhetorician and one of the ten Attic orators. His fame principally rests on a political pamphlet, the ‘Panegyric’, in which he advocates Greek unity and supremacy. He was a professional speechwriter and teacher of rhetoric, but because of his weak voice and extreme shyness, he never spoke in the courts or addressed a public meeting. Other published works include the manifesto ‘Against the Sophists’. |
| Born in Athens, he was the son of a wealthy flute manufacturer. He received a good education, and when the Peloponnesian War ruined his family, he set up as a teacher. He quickly rose to fame, and made a fortune that ranked him among the wealthiest citizens. |
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| In 1750, Harvard demanded that applicants be able to extemporaneously "read, construe, and parse Tully [Cicero], Virgil, or such like classical authors and to write Latin in prose, and to be skilled in making Latin verse, or at least to know the rules of Prosodia, and to read, construe, and parse ordinary Greek as in the New Testament, Isocrates, or such like and decline the paradigms of Greek nouns and verbs. Isocrates said: "The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet" Praise the one who said the words Make a paraphrase Explain the reason Bring forward an antithesis Make a comparison Give an example Adduce testimony from others Conclude with a short summary Eques, Poeta, Comes Palatinus," as recorded on his tombstone, was a pupil of Guarino's and Theodore Gaza's, a scholar of Greek, a translator of Isocrates and Theocritus, and an author of poetic works, commentaries (on Cicero, Persius, Juvenal, Horace) and dialogues. |