Isocrates, having become a celebrated teacher of…
380 BCE
Isocrates, having become a celebrated teacher of rhetoric and political philosophy, had opened in about 393 the first permanent institution of higher education in the liberal arts. (Of his hundred pupils, the most notable are Timotheus, the Athenian general, prominent in Athens' history between 378 and 355; Nicocles, who will succeed his father Evagoras as ruler of Salamis in Cyprus; and the two greatest Greek historians of the fourth century, Ephorus—who will author a universal history—and Theopompus—who will write the history of Philip II of Macedon. In this way, his influence permeates both politics and literature.)
Icocrates publishes his Panegyricus (the composition of which is said to have taken ten years) in 380, exhorting the Greeks to accept Athenian leadership in a campaign against Persia.