Iso-Polites. Isocrates for a new Idea of citizenship. Bando Prin 2022 - Decreto Direttoriale n. 104 del 02-02-2022 CUP J53D23019550 001- PRIN 2022FZPF2E

The Iso-Polites project will offer a new Italian translation of Isocrates’ Opera omnia in the light of the “New Oxford Isocrates” and it will be dedicated in same time to the drafting of a systematic commentary on the Against the Sophists, the Encomium of Helen and the Letters. We are certain that the widest reading and knowledge of Isocrates' thought can guarantee today a decisive improvement both on the philological and cultural level, and on the educational and social level with regard to the programmatic awareness of a “poetics of the citizen”. We are convinced that the rediscovery of Isocrates, strengthened also by the “New Oxford Isocrates”, is now indispensable and should be exploited in an unitary project. Translating and observing the Opera omnia of Isocrates from a mature and reliable philological point of view will allow to understand and to make available not only to the scientific community the value of a literary protagonist of the ancient world: not only an outstanding voice within the Greek literary production, but also a fundamental author for the development of Western thought. In fact Isocrates gave a unique contribution to the idea of citizenship, based on a strong cohesion and interlacement between politike techne and paideia, politics and education.