Isaeus
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Isaeus ( Isaios; fl. early 4th century BC) was one of the ten Attic orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metic logographer (speechwriter) for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheritance, with one on civil rights. Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias, although Isaeus was more given to employing sophistry.
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- Born
- ca. 420 B.C.
- Died
- ca. 350 B.C.
- Works
- 35
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- Oratorum graecorum
- Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates ...
- The Speeches of Isaeus
- Isaei Orationes cum aliquot deperditarum fragmentis
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- orator
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- 0400-00-00
- date of birth
- 0420-00-00
- date of death
- 0340-00-00
- name in native language
- Ἰσαῖος
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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Isaeus ( Isaios; fl. early 4th century BC) was one of the ten Attic orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metic logographer (speechwriter) for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheritance, with one on civil rights. Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias, although Isaeus was more given to employing sophistry.
==Life== The time of his birth and death is unknown, but all accounts agree in the statement that he flourished () during the period between the Peloponnesian War and the accession of Philip II of Macedon, so that he lived between 420 and 348 BC. He was a son of Diagoras, and was born at Chalcis in Euboea; some sources say he was born in Athens, probably only because he came there at an early age and spent the greater part of his life there.
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