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Isaeus
4th-century BC Greek orator · Lawyers · Lived 420 BC to 340 BC · aged 80
Isaeus was one of the ten Attic orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metic logographer (speechwriter) for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth.
Isaeus is read about 47 times a day, in 21 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 110 days, one point a day.
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About this person
They are mostly concerned with inheritance, with one on civil rights. Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias, although Isaeus was more given to employing sophistry.
Category
Lawyers
Type
Lawyer
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 420 BC to 340 BC · aged 80