in the Fourth Century B.C., Theocritus and Theopompos, two students of Isocrates, became famous. Theocritus was a rhetorician, a poet and a writer of historical books. He belonged to the party against Macedonians and used his sceptic writing as a means of propaganda against the Macedonian Court, which was the reason for being executed by Antigonos the One-eyed. Theopompos was the most important Chian historian of antiquity and spent most of his life in the exile because of being in favour of the Macedonians and Lacones. He wrote two historical books, “Philippic” and “Greek”. He also wrote consulting speeches, praises and letters addressing to Philippos and Alexander the Great .
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