biography
pronunciation:
[iysokrateez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (436–338 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek orator and prose writer, born in Athens, Greece. In his youth, he joined the circle of Socrates, but abandoned philosophy for speech writing. He then became an influential teacher of oratory (c.390 BC), and presented rhetoric as an essential foundation of education. |
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