# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isocrates
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:00.715Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/isocrates"
name: "Isocrates"
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description: "He taught rhetoric for half a century in Athens, shaped how Greeks argued and wrote, and spent his final decades urging someone—anyone—to unite Greece and march on Persia. He starved himself at 98 when Macedonia crushed Greek independence instead."
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deathDate: "-338"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Isocrates lived through nearly a century of Athenian tumult, trained possibly by Tisias in the courtroom rhetoric born two generations earlier with Corax of Syracuse, and became one of the ten Attic orators who defined Greek persuasion. He built his influence through teaching and written works rather than courtroom speeches, and from his school he issued repeated calls for a Greek invasion of Persia—addressing one leader after another, finally settling his hopes on Philip II of Macedon. When Philip defeated the Greeks at Chaeronea in 338 BC, extinguishing the liberty Isocrates had wanted to channel outward, he refused food and died two years short of 100. Alexander would carry out the Persian campaign, but Isocrates did not see it.