CONTENTS
Preface
General Introduction
PARALLEL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Apparatus Criticus
COMMENTARY
Index
Two contrasting works, both in style and content, illustrate the
versatility of Isocrates, the most accomplished writer of polished
periodic Greek prose. The Panegyricus is a patriotic work
of Athenian propaganda composed with great care and also intended
to advertise his skills to potential pupils at his school for
leading statesmen. In it he argues the case for Athenian leadership
of a pan-Hellenic expedition against Persia, representing it as
a cultural as well as a military crusade. In To Nicocles
he offers advice to one of his pupils, the newly crowned king
of Cyprus, on how to rule acceptably to his people and tolerably
to himself. From it emerges a portrait of the ideal Hellenistic
monarch. Less elaborately written than the Panegyricus,
it displays its author's ability to write with clarity and economy.
Stephen Usher formerly Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London has written extensively on oratory and is also the author of The Historians of Greece and Rome and Dionysius of Halicarnassus Critical Essays. He is also the author of Greek Orators volume V and co-author of Greek Orators volume I (with M. Edwards) in this series.
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