Isocrates (436–338 BC) was a prominent ancient Greek rhetorician and educator who established one of the first permanent institutions for liberal arts education in Athens. He was also a prolific writer whose works, particularly his essays on rhetoric and politics, significantly influenced later rhetorical theory and practice.

After the engraving from Orateurs section of “Iconographie grecque” (Pl.28) by Ennio Quirino Visconti published in 1808 in Paris