{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0081.tlg004.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg004.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg004.local001","title":"Ἰσοκρατης Ἀθηναῖος","titleGreek":"Ἰσοκρατης Ἀθηναῖος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Dionysius of Halicarnassus","authorityName":"DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0081-dionysius-halicarnassensis/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0081-dionysius-halicarnassensis/","editors":["Hermann Usener","Ludwig Radermacher"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Dionysii Halicarnasei Opuscula","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1899","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/quaeexstant05dionuoft/page/54/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Dionysius Of Halicarnassus. 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