Isaeus

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Isaeus was an ancient Athenian orator and logographer of the 4th century BCE, known for his expertise in inheritance cases and influence on later Attic oratory.

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instanceOf Athenian
ancient Greek orator
classical Athenian orator
logographer
citizenship Athens
country Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
educatedAt school of Isocrates
era Classical Greece
fieldOfWork Attic oratory
forensic oratory
inheritance law
rhetoric
floruit 4th century BCE
genre forensic speech
judicial oratory
hasWork On the Estate of Apollodorus
On the Estate of Aristarchus
On the Estate of Astyphilus
On the Estate of Ciron
On the Estate of Cleonymus
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
On the Estate of Hagnias
On the Estate of Menecles
On the Estate of Nicostratus
On the Estate of Philoctemon
On the Estate of Pyrrhus
influenced Demosthenes
later Attic orators
influencedBy Isocrates
Lysias
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
movement Aeschines
surface form: Attic orators
notableFor expertise in inheritance cases
influence on later Attic oratory
numberOfSurvivingSpeeches 11
occupation logographer
orator
placeOfActivity Athens
primarySubjectMatter inheritance litigation
sourceOfInformation Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Plutarch
tradition Attic Greek prose
writingStyle focused on legal argumentation
technical and analytical
wroteAbout family law
inheritance disputes
property law

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Isocrates student Isaeus