Abstract
Isocrates's texts are full of comments and advices about kingship. And many are the kings (mythological or historical) who extensively appear. Yet Isocrates is caring about the position and the prosperity of his own polis rather than about the perfect meaning of kingship. W e must here explain, at first, what our rhetor expects from a king, then how he borrows from words ofkingship (almost ancient ones) such terms as time, geras and, perhaps, the notion of temenos, and applies them to the democratic Athens. In fact, Isocrates tells " new things in an old way". And he reveals all his subtle cleverness when he defines the new hegemony he hopes for Athens using ancient words which bear the seal of the kings'' prestige.
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