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Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse

Isocrates (436-338 B.C.)

• Isocrates developed an entire educational system around rhetoric. He opened a school several years before Plato founded the academy.

• There were, he claimed, three elements in successful oratory:
  • Nature
  • Training
  • Practice.

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