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Isocrates:
Selected Sources

Primary Sources (Texts and Translations)
Isocrates. Isocrates I. Trans. David Mirady and Yun Lee Too. Oratory of Classical Greece 4. Austin: U of Texas P, 2000.
Critical Literature

Cahn, Michael.

"Reading Rhetoric Rhetorically: Isocrates and the Marketing of Insight." Rhetorica 8 (1990): 103–118.

Clark, Norman. "The Critical Servant: An Isocratean Contribution to Critical Rhetoric." Quarterly Journal of Speech 82 (1996): 111-124.
Dusanic, Slobodan. "Isocrates, the Chian intellectuals, and the political context of the Euthydemus." Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (1999): 1-16.
Flower, Michael A. "From Simonides to Isocrates: The Fifth-Century Origins of Fourth-Century Panhellenism." Classical Antiquity 19 (2000): 65-101.
Halliwell, Stephen. ."Philosophical Rhetoric or Rhetorical Philosophy? The Strange Case of Isocrates." The Rhetoric Canon. Ed. Brenda Deen Schildgen. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
Hamilton, C. D. "Greek Rhetoric and History: The Case of Isocrates." Arktouros: Hellenic studies Presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Ed. G. W. Bowersock and W. Burkert. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979. 290-298.
Harding, Philip. "The Purpose of Isokrates' Archidamos and On the Peace." California Studies in Classical Antiquity 6 (1973): 137-149.
Haskins, Ekaterina V. Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle. Greenville: U of South Carolina P, 2004.
---. "Rhetoric between Orality and Literacy: Culture Memory and Performance in Isocrates and Aristotle." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 158-178.
Heilbrunn, G. "The Composition of Isocrates' Helen." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 107 (1977): 147-159.
---. "Isocrates on Rhetoric and Power." Hermes 103 (1975): 154-178.
Lentz, T. M. "Writing as Sophistry: From Preservation to Persuasion." Quarterly Journal of Speech 68 (1982): 60-68.
Livingstone, Niall. A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris. The Netherlands: Brill, 2001.
Markle, M. M. "Support of Athenian Intellectuals for Philip: A Study of Isocrates' Philippus and Speusippus' Letter to Philip." Journal of Hellenic Studies 96 (1976): 80-99.
Matson, W. I. "Isocrates the Pragmatist." Review of Metaphysics 10 (1957): 423-427.
Moritani, K. "Arche and hegemonia in Isocrates." Journal of Classical Studies33 (1985): 40-48.
Moysey, Robert A. "Isokrates and Chares: A Study in the Political Spectrum of Mid-4th Cent. Athens." Ancient World 15 (1987): 81-86.
---. "Isokrates' On the Peace: Rhetorical Exercise or Political Advice?" American Journal of Ancient History 7 (1982): 118-127.
Poulakos, John. "Argument, Practicality, and Eloquence in Isocrates' Helen." Rhetorica 4 (1986): 1-19.

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"Early Changes in Rhetorical Practice and Understanding: From the Sophists to Isocrates." Texte: Revue de critique et de theorie litteraire 8 (1989): 307–324.

Poulakos, Takis. "Isocrates' Use of doxa." Philosophy & Rhetoric 34 (2001): 61-78.

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"Isocrates' Use of Narrative in the Evagoras: Epideictic Rhetoric and Moral Action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (1987): 317–328.

---. Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1997.
Race, William H. "Pindaric Encomium and Isokrates' Evagoras." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 117 (1987): 131-155.
Rowe, Galen O. "Two Responses by Isocrates to Demosthenes." Historia 51 (2002): 149-162.
Rummel, E. "Isocrates' Ideal of Rhetoric: Criteria of Evaluation." Classical Journal 75 (1979): 25-35.
Schlatter, Frederic W. "Isocrates, Against the Sophists, 16." American Journal of Philology 93 (1972): 591-597.
Schwarze, Steve. "Performing 'Phronesis': The Case of Isocrates' 'Helen'." Philosophy & Rhetoric 32 (1999): 78-95.
Stephens, S. A. "The Ancient Title of the Ad Demonicum." Yale Classical Studies 25 (1985): 5-8.
Sullivan, Robert G. "Eidos/idea in Isocrates." Philosophy & Rhetoric 34 (2001): 79-92.
Timmerman, David M. "Isocrates' Competing Conceptualization of Philosophy." Philosophy & Rhetoric 31 (1998): 145-159.

Too, Yun Lee

 The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.