The library of Isocrates

1. Isocrates 4 authority · 1 neutral · 3 extended · 3 endorsed 11 citations

   Antidosis

   4 citations

   To Philip

   4 citations

   Nicocles or the Cyprians

   1 citation

   Areopagiticus

   1 citation

   To Philip, II

   1 citation

   As to the hegemony, then, it is easy enough for you to make up your minds from what has been read to you that it should by right belong to Athens.

2. Homer 5 authority · 1 neutral 6 citations

   Panathenaicus

   2 citations

   Against the Sophists

   1 citation

   Helen

   1 citation

   Panegyricus

   1 citation

   To Nicocles

   1 citation

   As to the poetry of Homer and Hesiod and the rest, I would fain speak—for I think that I could silence those who chant their verses and prate about these poets in the Lyceum—but I perceive that I am being carried beyond the due limits which have been assigned to an introduction;

3. Panegyricus Isocrates 1 authority · 2 extended 3 citations

   To Philip

   1 citation

   Panathenaicus

   1 citation

   To Philip, II

   1 citation

   for, apart from the other disabilities under which I labor, my Panegyricus, which has enriched the other men who make philosophy their business, has left me quite impoverished, because I am neither willing to repeat what I have written in that discourse nor am I at my age able to cast about for new things.

4. Hesiod 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   To Nicocles

   1 citation

   Panathenaicus

   1 citation

   For some of my friends met me and related to me how, as they were sitting together in the Lyceum, three or four of the sophists of no repute— men who claim to know everything and are prompt to show their presence everywhere—were discussing the poets, especially the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, saying nothing original about them, but merely chanting their verses and repeating from memory the clevere …

5. Letters of the King Great King 1 authority 1 citation

   Areopagiticus

   1 citation

   As to the hatred of us among the Hellenes, you have heard the report of our generals themselves, and what the King thinks of us, he has made plain in the letters which have been dispatched by him.

6. Lycurgus 1 refuted 1 citation

   Panathenaicus

   1 citation

   I acknowledge that I am going to speak at length of the institutions of Sparta, not taking the view, however, that Lycurgus invented or conceived any of them, but that he imitated as well as he could the government of our ancestors, establishing among the Spartans a democracy tempered with aristocracy—even such as existed in Athens —, enacting that the offices be filled, not by lot, but by electio …

7. Pindar 1 authority 1 citation

   Antidosis

   1 citation

   It would be even more absurd if, whereas Pindar, the poet, was so highly honored by our forefathers because of a single line of his in which he praises Athens as “the bulwark of Hellas” that he was made”proxenos“and given a present of ten thousand drachmas, I, on the other hand, who have glorified Athens and our ancestors with much ampler and nobler encomiums, should not even be privileged to end my days in peace.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Against Euthynus

Euthynus's own knowledge of Timodemus's extortion of Nicias

Against Callimachus

the Oaths of the Amnesty · the case of Philon of Coele · the covenant of Amnesty · the example of Thrasybulus and Anytus · the law of Archinus establishing the plea of exception

Against Lochites

Law and judicial practice on temple-robbery and theft · Law on Abusive Language (fine of five hundred drachmas) · Law on Assault and Battery (public and private suits for aikeia)

Concerning the Team of Horses

The Amnesty (reconciliation decree after the rule of the Thirty) · The Athenian laws on penalties

Trapeziticus

Letter to the city of Athens

Aegineticus

Law of Aegina (governing wills of alien residents) · Law of Ceos · Law of the opponents' own country (Siphnos) · The Will of Thrasylochus

To Demonicus

the myths concerning Zeus, Heracles, and Tantalus

Helen

Argument that nothing exists of the things that are · Argument that the same things are both possible and impossible · Earlier composition on Helen (an encomium that is actually a defense) · Oracle concerning Helen's maturity · Proof that the infinite whole is one · Rhetorical compositions of Protagoras and his contemporaries · The Recantation (palinode on Helen)

Busiris

Accusation of Socrates · Defense of Busiris · the genealogical chronicles of the heroic age · the teaching and religious practice transmitted by Pythagoras · the traditional poetic tales about the gods

Panegyricus

epic and tragic poetry depicting calamities · orations on 'deposits' (forensic declamations) · the Treaty (King's Peace) · the oracular pronouncements of Apollo at Delphi (the Pythian oracle)

Plataicus

Ancestral Athenian precedent concerning the Argive dead · Athenian grants of intermarriage and common citizenship to Plataeans · Customary honors for gods, heroes, and the war dead at Plataea · Oaths and covenants of the recent war settlement · Treaties guaranteeing autonomy of Greek cities

To Nicocles

Poetry of Phocylides · Poetry of Theognis ¶ · Tragedy

Nicocles or the Cyprians

old story of Zeus' kingship over the gods

Archidamus

Delphic Oracle ¶ · Maxim about royalty and death

On the Peace

Athenian decree on display of allied tribute · Athenian law prescribing death for bribery · Common covenants of peace with the king of Persia and the Lacedaemonians · Theban oaths concerning seized cities · Treaty guaranteeing Athenian independence

Areopagiticus

Ancestral democracy instituted by Solon · Ancestral democracy re-established by Cleisthenes · Report of the Athenian generals

Antidosis

Athenian juror oaths and laws · Athenian laws ¶ · Doctrine of four elements with strife and love · Doctrine of infinite elements · Doctrine of none at all · Doctrine of not more than three elements · Doctrine of one · Doctrine of two elements · Indictment against Isocrates · Jurors' oath to hear accusers and accused impartially

To Philip

Ancient historical traditions about Athens, Heracles, and the Heraclids · Current phrase about Asia from Cilicia to Sinope · Historical record of Greek one-man rule · Poetic and prose judgment on mythic exempla · Traditional poetic and historical accounts of Heracles · Traditions of ancient history and dealings with barbarians

Panathenaicus

Ancient traditions and records · Delphic inscription · Tragedies about Adrastus and Thebes at the Dionysia

10 works in the library quote Isocrates — 26 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Isocrates 21 citations · Panegyricus 4 citations · Panathenaicus 1 citation

Isocrates 14 citations · Hugo Grotius 9 citations · Clement of Alexandria 2 citations · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Isocrates is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 5 authority 5 citations

   ch. 14 · ch. 15 · ch. 20 · ch. 21 · ch. 26

   Isocrates is named as the source reporting the Lacedaemonian doctrine.

   And the Lacedaemonians, we are informed by Isocrates, laid it down for a certain rule admitted among all nations, that the right to public territory as well as to private property was so firmly established by length of time, that it could not be disturbed;

2. To Philip Isocrates 3 authority · 2 extended 5 citations · 8 passages

   to philip 8 passages anchored here

   The current speech develops and repeats a policy already advocated in Isocrates' earlier Panegyric.

   This was, in fact, the course which I had already advocated in the Panegyric discourse.

3. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 3 authority · 1 neutral 4 citations · 9 passages

   ch. 16 · ch. 31 · letter ii 7 passages anchored here

   Isocrates is explicitly named as source of the cited definition.

   Tales autem sunt omnes quibus pars altera in iure suo imminuitur, iuxta Isocratis definitionem vocantis τὰ τοὺς ἑτέρους ἐλαττοῦντα παρὰ τὸ δίϰαιον.

4. Antidosis Isocrates 1 authority · 3 endorsed 4 citations · 20 passages

   antidosis 20 passages anchored here

   Isocrates cites and endorses one of his own political speeches as proof that his rhetoric benefits Athens and the Hellenes.

   As to the hegemony, then, it is easy enough for you to make up your minds from what has been read to you that it should by right belong to Athens.

5. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

   book 5 · book 6 2 passages anchored here

   Isocrates is cited as source for both Andocides and Lysias in separate orations.

   Again, when Isocrates had said, "as being kin to his money, but not to him," Lysias in the Orphans' speeches says, "And it has become plain that he was kin not to their persons, but to their money.

6. To Philip, II Isocrates 2 extended 2 citations · 3 passages

   to philip, ii 3 passages anchored here

   The current letter is described as a more concise continuation of the discourse's counsel.

   but I wished to write to you also regarding the action which I think should be taken after the conclusion of peace, and while this advice is similar to that in my discourse, it is, however, expressed much more concisely.

7. Areopagiticus Isocrates 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   areopagiticus 2 passages anchored here

   The passage cites the speaker's own discursive record to clarify his political stance.

   Furthermore, it is easy to judge of my purpose from the fact that in most of the discourses which I have written, you will find that I condemn oligarchies and special privileges, while I commend equal rights and democratic governments—not all of them, but those which are well-ordered, praising them not indiscriminately, but on just and reasonable grounds.

8. Nicocles or the Cyprians Isocrates 1 authority 1 citation

   nicocles or the cyprians

   The passage explicitly names Isocrates and refers to his prior treatment of rulership.

   On the former topic, how a ruler should act, you have heard Isocrates speak;

9. Panathenaicus Isocrates 1 extended 1 citation

   panathenaicus

   The named work is cited to compare and justify a different version of the same events.

   And let no one suppose that I fail to realize that I am giving a different version of these same events from that which I shall be found to have written in the Panegyricus.

10. On Tranquillity of Mind Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 authority 1 citation

    on tranquillity of mind

    The example is invoked to support and lend authority to the immediately following general principle that natures forced against their bent labor in vain.

    Isocrates laid his hand on Ephorus and drew him away from the forum, judging him more useful for composing records of history;