The sources of Panathenaicus

1. Homer 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Homer's poetry is explicitly invoked as a recognized poetic source, though the speaker postpones evaluation.

   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;

2. Hesiod 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Hesiod's poetry is explicitly invoked as a recognized poetic source in the education dispute.

   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 …

3. Lycurgus 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Lycurgus' ordinances are invoked as a recognized Spartan legal authority, but the speaker rejects their originality.

   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 …

4. Panegyricus Isocrates 1 extended 1 citation

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   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.

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panathenaicus 3 sources

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

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Explicitly attributed to Isocrates 'in the Panathenaicus' and quoted at length.

   Well, then, does Isocrates in the Panathenaicus, having put the question "Whom, then, do I call educated?