Menexenus
   Part
 1 Intro|       narrative; in the age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians


Phaedrus
   Part
 2 Intro|       message to his favourite Isocrates, whose future distinction
 3 Intro|         the ages of Lysias and Isocrates; (2) the character of the
 4 Intro|      was born in the year 458; Isocrates in the year 436, about seven
 5 Intro|        written in the youth of Isocrates, when the promise was not
 6 Intro|       not later than 406, when Isocrates was thirty and Plato twenty-three
 7 Intro|       friend Cephalus? Or that Isocrates himself is the enemy of
 8 Intro|     far more characteristic of Isocrates than of Lysias.) But Plato
 9 Intro|    comparative favour shown to Isocrates may possibly be accounted
10 Intro|      them in the platitudes of Isocrates and his school, spreads
11 Text | SOCRATES: Who is he?~PHAEDRUS: Isocrates the fair:—What message will
12 Text |        describe him?~SOCRATES: Isocrates is still young, Phaedrus;
13 Text |       I will myself deliver to Isocrates, who is my delight; and


The Sophist
   Part
14 Intro|      neutral. Plato, Xenophon, Isocrates, Aristotle, all give a bad
15 Intro|  writers, such as Xenophon and Isocrates. Changes in the meaning