- A
sophist (Gr****: σοφιστής, romanized: sophistēs) was a
teacher in
ancient Greece in the
fifth and
fourth centuries BCE.
Sophists specialized in one or...
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original instructors of
Western speech—the
Sophists—disputed this
limited view of rhetoric.
According to
Sophists like Gorgias, a
successful rhetorician could...
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Lives of the
Sophists may
refer to: a book by
Eunapius a book by
Philostratus Lives and
Opinions of
Eminent Philosophers This
disambiguation page lists...
- The
Sophist (Gr****: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista) is a
Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most
likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors...
- and
Sophists (Ancient Gr****: Βίοι Φιλοσόφων καὶ Σοφιστῶν; Latin:
Vitae sophistarum), a
collection of the
biographies of 24
philosophers and
sophists. He...
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deceitful practices,
these sophists give a bad re****tion to all
teachers of oratory.
Despite his
intention for
Against the
Sophists to be
written as an outline...
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Asterius of
Cappadocia (Ἀστέριος; died c. 341) was an
Arian Christian theologian from Cappadocia. Few of his
writings have been
recovered in
their entirety;...
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after her death.
Lives of the
Sophists,
written between 231 and 237 AD, is a semi-biographical
history of the Gr****
sophists. The book is
dedicated to a...
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Apollonius the
Sophist (Gr****: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Σοφιστής) was a
famous grammarian, who
probably lived towards the end of the 1st
century AD and
taught in...
- (Ancient Gr****: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. 'The
Dinner Sophists',
where sophists may be
translated more
loosely as 'sages, philosophers, experts')...
