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Isaeus

420 BCE340 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)

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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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