Protagoras

Protagoras

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Protagoras (Greek:) (ca. 490- 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue...
Gorgias

Gorgias

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Gorgias, Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first...
Isocrates

Isocrates

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Isocrates, Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made...

Antiphon

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Antiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC. There is an ongoing controversy over whether he is one...

Thrasymachus

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Thrasymachus was a sophist of Ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's "Republic".

Prodicus

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Prodicus of Ceos (Greek: Πρόδικος "Pródikos", (c. 465 - 415) was a Greek philosopher, part of the first generation of Sophists. "He was a Sophist i...

Philostratus

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Philostratus, was the name of four Greek sophists of the Roman imperial period: # (c. 150-200) "Philostratus I": Very minor author, known only for...
Libanius

Libanius

male, deceased (394)
Libanius was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the later Roman Empire, an educated pagan of the Sophist school in an Empire that was turning...

Eunapius

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Eunapius was a Greek sophist and historian of the 4th century

Alcidamas

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Alcidamas, of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th century BC. He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and...