Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XII ISOKRATES.—LIFE
- CHAPTER XIII ISOKRATES.—HIS THEORY OF CULTURE
- CHAPTER XIV ISOKRATES.—STYLE
- CHAPTER XV ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XVI ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XVII ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XVIII ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XIX ISAEOS.—LIFE
- CHAPTER XX ISAEOS.—STYLE
- CHAPTER XXI ISAEOS.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XXII THE MATURED CIVIL ELOQUENCE
- CHAPTER XXIII RETROSPECT
- CHAPTER XXIV THE DECLINE AND THE REVIVAL
- REGISTER
- INDEX
CHAPTER XII - ISOKRATES.—LIFE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XII ISOKRATES.—LIFE
- CHAPTER XIII ISOKRATES.—HIS THEORY OF CULTURE
- CHAPTER XIV ISOKRATES.—STYLE
- CHAPTER XV ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XVI ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XVII ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XVIII ISOKRATES.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XIX ISAEOS.—LIFE
- CHAPTER XX ISAEOS.—STYLE
- CHAPTER XXI ISAEOS.—WORKS
- CHAPTER XXII THE MATURED CIVIL ELOQUENCE
- CHAPTER XXIII RETROSPECT
- CHAPTER XXIV THE DECLINE AND THE REVIVAL
- REGISTER
- INDEX
Summary
Isokrates was born five years before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War and died just after the battle of Chaeroneia. It might have been expected that such a life, touching both limits of such a century, would have been in its written records the vivid image of that century itself, with all its vicissitudes of struggle, with all its variety of impressive contrasts. One whose youth had known the intense and desperate energy of that war in which Imperial Athens was fighting for existence, whose early manhood had witnessed the terrible and moving drama of her overthrow, whose middle age had been passed under the dominion of Sparta now changed from the deliverer into the despot, whose later days had seen the restoration of Athens to the headship of a great Confederacy, the rise of Epameinondas—a second, though a Theban, Perikles for Greece—and his death before his national patriotism could give a new coherence to the nation, then the space of hopeless quarrelling and confusion, with the voice of Demosthenes heard above it all, but heard in vain, till Philip came in and struck his blow—surely, it might have been thought, a political essayist with such a compass of personal experience must be of almost unique value for the comparison of period with period. Isokrates in one sense disappoints any such hope.
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- Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos , pp. 1 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010