Isocrates

Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek teacher of rhetoric and was one of the ten . He was one of the leading Greek rhetorical speakers of his time and contributed to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works.
Some people say , a pupil of , was the teacher of Isocrates. Within two generations, rhetoric had become an important art, its growth driven by social and political changes such as democracy and courts of law. Isocrates starved himself to death, two years before his 100th birthday.