Books by Isocrates

All of Jebb's Isocrates text & notes from the Attic Orators accompanied by the annotated Isocrates Greek text from his Selections; all newly introduced, annotated and formatted. The most complete appreciation of Isocrates ever published in English.

The importance of Isocrates (436-338 BCE) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. Twenty-one discourses by Isocrates survive; these include political essays, treatises on education and on ethics, and speeches for legal cases. Nine letters, more on public than private matters, are also extant.