By Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Sir Richard Claverhouse (R. C.) Jebb (1841-1905) used to be a popular classical pupil and flesh presser. Jebb used to be collage Orator at Cambridge ahead of changing into Professor of Greek at Glasgow in 1875, and finally returning to Cambridge as Regius Professor. His many guides contain books on Greek oratory, Homer, and glossy Greece in addition to versions of historic Greek drama. The two-volume Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos (1876) was once written with fundamental pursuits: to take care of an important yet usually overlooked portion of Greek literature, Attic prose oratory, and to situate that oratory inside its social and political contexts. Jebb analyses a couple of rhetors from the interval prior to Demosthenes, delivering an intensive evaluation of the style in this 'best interval of Athens'. quantity 2 makes a speciality of the lives, old contexts, and works of Isokrates and Isaeos ahead of interpreting the decline and revival of Greek oratory.
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Sophist. 17. ) MaKp6/3iot § 23: (5) [Plut] Fit. Isocr. § 14: (6) Anon. Biogr. 's Isoer. p. xn). —LIFE. 33 Isokrates was buried on a piece of rising ground near the Kynosarges,—a sanctuary of Herakles, with a gymnasium, just outside the Diomeian Gate on the east side of Athens 1 . The tombs of his kindred were there,—covered once by six tablets of stone, which had disappeared, however, before the Plutarchic Life was written. On the tomb of Isokrates himself was a column about forty-five feet high, crowned with the image of a siren,-—• a symbol of winning eloquence in which only a thoroughly modern ingenuity could discover an unconscious irony.
184—185 : cf. § 271, and Helen. Encom. § 5. 2 Antid. §§ 187—191. a ih% §§ 2 7 6 ; 4 6 . c p panatL [xllj §§ 1—3, 13: Philipp. [v] § 82. —THEORY OF CULTURE. ' The ' Philosophy' of Isokrates is, then, the Art of Definition. speaking and of writing on large political subjects, considered as a preparation for advising or acting in political affairs. But something more than such a definition is Relation of Isokrates to needed for the accurate appreciation of his work. It is necessary to determine his relation to other Unn ' teachers who professed to be doing nearly the same thing.
I t was about half-finished when he was attacked by a disease against which—when he finished the discourse in 339—he had been fighting for three years1. But he was still working hard every day. He speaks of himself, in another place2, as revising it with some young pupils. He was then ninety-seven. ^ ^ e importance of his school for Athens and for Greece can best be judged from the series of men whom it helped to form. Hermippos of Smyrna wrote a book on the 'Disciples of Isokrates'; 3 and the monograph of a modern scholar has brought together forty-one of these 4 .