Isokratēs

Japanese: イソクラテス（英語表記）Isokratēs

[Born] 436 B.C. Athens
Died 338 BC. Athenian Greek prose writer, orator, and educator. One of the ten greatest orators of Attica. After working as a teacher of rhetoric and a writer of court speeches, he opened a school separate from the Sophists' school around 392 BC, where he taught not only oratory but also a wide range of general education with the aim of shaping character and educating the whole person, and placed importance on morality. Since opening, he has attracted students from all over the Greek world, and has produced many outstanding politicians, orators, and historians. As a political debater, he consistently advocated Greek unification and an expedition to Persia, and became a pioneer of Hellenism. As a prose writer, he valued rhythm and harmony, and created a well-balanced, flowing, and rich style by layering beautiful words and long sub-statements. Twenty-one speeches and treatises and nine letters have been handed down.

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Japanese:

[生]前436. アテネ
[没]前338. アテネ
ギリシアの散文作家，雄弁家，教育者。アッチカ十大雄弁家の一人。修辞学教師から法廷演説代作者を経て，前 392年頃ソフィストの学校とは異なる学校を開き，人格形成，全人教育を目的に雄弁術のみならず広く一般教養を教え，道徳性を重んじた。開設以来全ギリシア世界から弟子を集め，すぐれた政治家，雄弁家，歴史家を輩出した。政論家としては一貫してギリシア統一とペルシア遠征を説いて，ヘレニズムの先覚者となり，散文作家としてはリズムと調和を重んじて，響きの美しい言葉と長い副文の積重ねによって均整のとれた流麗豊満な文体を生み出した。作品は演説や論文 21編と書簡9編が伝わる。

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