Isée

Isée , in Greek old Ἰσαῖος/ Isaĩos (v. 420 - v. 340 av. J. - C.), one of the ten Speakers attics.

Biography

Isée, celebrates Greek speaker, flowered approximately 400 years before J. - C.: but neither Plutarque, nor Denys d' Halicarnasse, which besides speaks about him with detail, indicates the dates of its birth and its death. One believes that it had been born with Chalcis, probably in the island of Eubée; but Pope Blount calls it Assyrius , giving him for Chalcide fatherland in Syria. After having carried out put out of order an enough youth, Isée became then exemplary temperance. Formed with the eloquence by Lysias and Isocrate, it opened itself in Athens a school which had greatest success, and it was, says one, the first which gave names to the various figures of Rhétorique. Its style has much relationship with that of Lysias. It simple, elegant, but is filled of force, manner that it like passed a long time in proverb: Isaeo torrentior , known as Juvénal (III, 74). It is believed that it is at a rate of this vehemence that Démosthène took it for Master, preferably with Isocrate. The Master was not long in realizing how much such a disciple could make him honor. He left his school to give care particular to Démosthène; and one even believes that it had much share to the pleas of this one against his tutors. The disciple was not ungrateful, and gave two thousand Drachme S to his Master. Isée shone especially by the accuracy of its dialectical; and some find it higher even than Démosthène for the eloquence of the bar. Also all its speeches are only pleas. Denys d' Halicarnasse reproached him for being crafty one, insidious, and for seeking to mislead its listeners.

Work

We have eleven speeches of Isée, who treat all businesses of heritage. Denys d' Halicarnasse partially quotes a twelfth, heading Against Éphilète , and the titles of forty works also reached us, which treat various businesses and not only of heritages. This hiatus between its effective corpus and the corpus which we have probably explains by the practice alexandrine to gather the speeches by topics.

Isée was famous of alive to be manipulator and litigious sound, exploiting the remote regions of the Athenian right to gain doubtful businesses. In fact, its speeches are remarkable by their will of effectiveness, privileging the solid argumentation with the brilliance or the extent of the style. These speeches remain one of rare direct testimonys on the Athenian right.

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