Isocrates (Isokrates)

Life
436 BC (Athens) - 338 BC (?)

About...
Not so well known as some of the heavier boys in the rhetorical school-yard, Isocrates has been immensly influential on generations of later rhetoricians.

A central concept in Isocrates' writing is 'anti-logos' or 'controversia' as it was later known; discussion between two stances to yield a better understanding in the end.

Isocrates at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Works
Antidosis
Phaedrus

War, intelligence and Rhetoric?
Isocrates' concept of anti-logos echoes Heraclitus' old proverb "War is the father of all things"

Other interesting things?