Isocrates II (The Oratory of Classical Greece) (v. 7) Hardcover - 2004
by Translator-Terry L. Papillon
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Contains Isocrates' orations 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, and 14, as well as all of his letters Offers evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion The Athenian rhetorician Isocrates (436 - 338) was one of the leading intellectual figures of the fourth century. This volume contains his orations 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, and 14, as well as all of his letters. These are Isocrates' political works. Three of the discourses - Panathenaicus, On the Peace, and the most famous, Panegyricus - focus on Athens, Isocrates' home. Archidamus is written in the voice of the Spartan prince to his assembly, and Plataicus is in the voice of a citizen of Plataea asking Athens for aid, while in To Philip, Isocrates himself calls on Philip of Macedon to lead a unified Greece against Persia.
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- Title Isocrates II (The Oratory of Classical Greece) (v. 7)
- Author Translator-Terry L. Papillon
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher University of Texas Press
- Date 2004-07
- ISBN 9780292702455
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