International audienceIsocrates’ political thought, carried by his speeches, is largely turned towards Asia, the King's empire and the peoples who are subjects to him. This concern is part of the aftermath of the Peace of Antalcidas concluded in 386 BC., whose content, scandalous in the eyes of the Athenian, has increased the Persian seizure on the Asian continent. The essential axis which will then command the political program defended by the Athenian for some thirty years, from Panegyricus (380) to Philippus (346) and Panathenaicus (342-339), is the elaboration of a panhellenism advocating peace and unity between the Greeks, closely subordinated to a common expedition against the Persian hereditary enemy.How does the isocratic corpus ref...