The sources of Panegyricus

1. Homer 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Isocrates explicitly names Homer and treats his poetry as an authoritative cultural institution that instills hereditary hostility to the barbarians, citing its honored place in education and public contests.

   Moreover, I think that even the poetry of Homer has won a greater renown because he has nobly glorified the men who fought against the barbarians, and that on this account our ancestors determined to give his art a place of honor in our musical contests and in the education of our youth, in order that we, hearing his verses over and over again, may learn by heart the enmity which stands from of ol …

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panegyricus 4 sources

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)

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1. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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2. Panathenaicus 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.

3. To Philip Isocrates 1 authority 1 citation

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   The named earlier discourse is explicitly invoked as part of the speaker's authority and rhetorical constraint.

   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. To Philip, II Isocrates 1 extended 1 citation

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   The letter extends the hopes of the Panegyricus into the present situation under Philip.

   I am grateful to my old age for this reason alone, because it has prolonged my life to this moment, so that the dreams of my youth, which I attempted to commit to writing both in my Panegyricus and in the discourse which was sent to you, I am now seeing in part already coming to fulfillment through your achievements and in part I have hopes of their future realization.