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Theopompus
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Theopompus (thē'ōpŏm`pəs), fl. 4th cent. B.C., Greek historian and rhetorician, b. Chios. He studied with the orator Isocrates Isocrates , 436–338 B.C., one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Greek history, he taught every younger orator of his time.
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 and became a friend of both Philip and Alexander of Macedon. His pro-Macedonian sympathies often caused trouble with his fellow Greeks. He wrote the Hellenica, a history of Greece from 411 B.C. to 394 B.C., and the Philippica, a discursive chronicle of Philip's life.
Theopompus 

Born circa 377 B.C.; died 300 B.C. Classical Greek historian; pupil of Isocrates and opponent of democracy.

Theopompus was a peripatetic sophist. His 12-volume history of Greece, Hellenica, covers the period from 411 to 394 B.C. and was intended as a continuation of the work of Thucydides. The 58 books of his Philippica glorify Philip II of Macedon. Only fragments of Theopompus’ works have been preserved.

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Jacoby, F. Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, vol. 12. Berlin-Leiden, 1962.


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