The Cypriot Trilogy of Isocrates:Diplomacy, Monarchy and Political Philosophy

The Cypriot Trilogy of Isocrates:Diplomacy, Monarchy and Political Philosophy

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In the Cypriot trilogy Isocrates does not intend to carry out only an oratorical exercise on his conception of the monarchic regime.These are speeches whose primary Copper Tube Bending Pliers meaning was to carry out a diplomatic action whose intention was for Cyprus to support the Athenian hegemonic cause.They were written at the precise moment when Timotheus travelled through the Aegean Sea and the north of Greece in order to consolidate Athenian expansionism.

In this way, he made a sequence of political speeches in which he used his Acetyl L-Carnitine own philosophical notions adapting them, on the one hand, to the Cypriot political situation characterized by confrontations between the pro-Hellenic and pro-Persian factions and, on the other hand, to the strategic needs of Athens.