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Tusculan Disputations · Character

Isocrates

Athenian rhetorician and educator; influential on Cicero's style.

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Also known as Isocrates

First appearance: tusculan disputations

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Born at Athens, pupil of Gorgias, Prodicus, and Socrates; opened a successful school of rhetoric.
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