Tusculan Disputations · Character
Isocrates
Athenian rhetorician and educator; influential on Cicero's style.
minor
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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