- A
sophist (Gr****: σοφιστής, romanized: sophistēs) was a
teacher in
ancient Greece in the
fifth and
fourth centuries BCE.
Sophists specialized in one or...
- him as a citizen. Philostratus,
Lives of the
Sophists 2.25.2. Greswell,
Edward (1830). "Celebrated
Sophists of Smyrna".
Dissertations Upon the Principles...
- ad Hermog. p. 402 Eunapius,
Lives of the
Sophists p. 113, ed. Antwerp. 1568 Eunapius,
Lives of the
Sophists p. 115, &c., ed. Antwerp. 1568 This article incorporates...
-
little is
known about him, Gr****
sophist Philostratus in his work
Lives of the
Sophists (Βίοι Σοφιστῶν)
mentioned that
sophist Heliodorus made a
strong impression...
- 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...
-
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...
-
original instructors of
Western speech—the
Sophists—disputed this
limited view of rhetoric.
According to
Sophists like Gorgias, a
successful rhetorician could...
-
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...
-
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...
- "Plato's
Objection to the
Sophists." The Gr**** World. London: Routledge, 1995. P. 585. Print. H.D.
Rankin (1983).
Sophists,
Socratics and Cynics. Pp....
