Antidosis

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Antidosis is a rhetorical and philosophical work by the Athenian orator Isocrates, framed as a fictional legal defense that expounds his educational ideals and defends his life and teaching.

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instanceOf literary work
philosophical work
rhetorical work
approximateDateOfComposition circa 354 BC
author Isocrates
circulation school text in antiquity
countryOfOrigin Classical Athens
culture Ancient Greek literature
defends Isocrates’ pedagogical method
the moral impact of rhetorical training
form fictional legal defense
judicial speech
genre apologia
forensic oration
rhetorical prose
historicalContext 4th century BC Athens
influenced Renaissance humanist educational thought
Roman rhetorical education
later rhetorical theory
language Ancient Greek
literaryDevice autobiographical narrative
fictional court case
literaryPeriod Classical Greek prose
mainCharacter Isocrates
narrativePerspective first-person
philosophicalPosition defense of rhetorical education
education as preparation for citizenship
link between rhetoric and moral character
primaryTheme civic virtue
education
philosophy of education
public service
rhetoric
self-defense of a teacher
purpose defend Isocrates’ life and teaching
expound Isocratean educational ideals
justify the social value of rhetorical training
relatedWork Against the Sophists
Panegyricus
setting Athenian law court
structure imaginary lawsuit
speech in self-defense
titleInGreek Ἀντίδοσις
titleLanguage Greek
titleMeaning exchange of property
topic critique of sophistic education
distinction between true and false education
relationship between wealth and public service
role of the teacher in the city

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Isocrates notableWork Antidosis