The Essential IsocratesThe Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greeces foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English translations of selections of his writings on his life and times and on morality, religion, philosophy, rhetoric, education, political theory, and Greek and Athenian history. In Mikalsons treatment, Isocrates receives his due not only as a major thinker but as