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Isaeus logo #21000 Isaeus (Ἰσαῖος 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 speechwriter for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheri...
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Isaeus

Isaeus logo #21003professional speech writer specializing in testamentary law, whose lucidity and logical method were a landmark in the development of forensic ... [1 related articles]
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Isaeus

Isaeus logo #20688(c. 420-350 BC) One of the ten Attic Orators, born probably at Chalcis in Euboea. Having studied under Lysias he became `logographos`, a writer of forensic speeches for delivery by others, and in 366 he helped...
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Isaeus

Isaeus logo #21217Isaeus was an Athenian orator, who lived between 420 and 348 BC. He was a pupil of Lysias and Isocrates, and, like them, became a teacher of eloquence and writer of orations, chiefly judicial. Eleven of his orations are extant. His style is clear, forcible, and concise.
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