On the Estate of Hagnias
Athens · -340
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Isaeus
Isaeus
c. 420 BCE–c. 340 BCE · Athens
Isaeus (c. 420 - c. 340s BCE) was an Athenian speechwriter and one of the canonical "Ten Attic Orators." He specialized in cases concerning inheritance and family property, and nearly all of his surviving speeches deal with disputed estates. Because of this focus, his work is an exceptionally important source for ancient Athenian law on wills, adoption, and inheritance, and he was remembered as a teacher of the orator Demosthenes.
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Stop 1 of 1420 BCE–340 BCELived
AthensAttica (Greece)
What they did here
Attic orator specializing in inheritance law.
About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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In the same tradition
Sophocles, Gorgias of Leontini, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Diogenes of Sinope
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Isaeus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Works(12)
On The Estate of Aristarchus
Athens · -340
On the Estate of Nicostratus
Athens · -340
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
Athens · -340
On the Estate of Menecles
Athens · -340
On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
Athens · -340
On The Estate of Cleonymus
Athens · -340
On The Estate of Ciron
Athens · -340
On the Estate of Philoctemon
Athens · -340
On Behalf of Euphiletus
Athens · -340
On The Estate of Apollodorus
Athens · -340
On the Estate of Astyphilus
Athens · -340