A sophist (Greek: σοφιστής, romanized: sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Sophists specialized in one or...

The Sophist (Greek: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors...

not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists". The main argument is between Socrates and the elderly Protagoras, a celebrated sophist and philosopher. The discussion...

Sophist Mountain is a 3,001-metre (9,846-foot) mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Sophist Mountain is the highest point of the Kitchen Range which is...

Abas (Greek: Ἄβας) was an ancient Greek sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries...

"Against the Sophists" is among the few Isocratic speeches that have survived from Ancient Greece. This polemical text was Isocrates' attempt to define...

who were catalogued and celebrated by Philostratus in his Lives of the Sophists. However, some recent research has indicated that this Second Sophistic...

generalship, and oration. Closely associated with his brother and fellow sophist Euthydemus, he is depicted in the writing of Plato and Xenophon. Plato's...

(appears in Shabbat 145b and Yevamot 45b) Choricius of Gaza (c. 500), Greek sophist and rhetorician Gaza Triad, three 6th Century Christian theologians from...

"sophist" or "philosopher" and is presented as following the action of the Sophist. The Sophist had begun with the question of whether the sophist, statesman...

Σωφρόνιος; Arabic: صفرونيوس; c. 560 – March 11, 638), called Sophronius the Sophist, was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 until his death. He is venerated...

Apollonius the Sophist (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Σοφιστής) was a famous grammarian, who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD and taught in...

little is known about him, Greek sophist Philostratus in his work Lives of the Sophists (Βίοι Σοφιστῶν) mentioned that sophist Heliodorus made a strong impression...

The name Antiphon the Sophist (/ˈæntəˌfɒn, -ən/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀντιφῶν) is used to refer to the writer of several Sophistic treatises. He probably lived...

original instructors of Western speech—the Sophists—disputed this limited view of rhetoric. According to Sophists like Gorgias, a successful rhetorician could...

Asterius of Cappadocia (Ἀστέριος; died c. 341) was an Arian Christian theologian from Cappadocia. Few of his writings have been recovered in their entirety;...

of the Sophists, II.23.4 G.W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 27 Bowersock, Greek Sophists, p. 28 Bowersock...

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...

or whether they were written by a separate man known as Antiphon the Sophist. This article only discusses Antiphon the Orator's biography and oratorical...

Αδριανός, c. 113 – 193 AD), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and...

AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the...

Abas or ABAS may refer to: Abas (sophist), an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troia from which Maurus...

student Zeno, which criticizes Plato's own metaphysical theories. Plato's Sophist dialogue includes an Eleatic stranger. These ideas about change and permanence...

was an ancient Greek historian of Arab descent, orator, rhetorician and sophist who flourished in the 3rd century. He came from a local eminent family...

Richard Rufus (Latin: Ricardus Rufus, lit. "Richard the Red"; d. c. AD 1260) was a Cornish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. Richard Rufus...

Eusebius (Ancient Greek: Εὐσέβιος) was an Arab sophist and tutor of the 4th century AD. known to had been active in Antioch during the reign of emperor...

(/ˈlaɪkəfrɒn/ LY-kə-fron; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Λυκόφρων, translit. Lukóphrōn) was a sophist of Ancient Greece. The central point about Lycrophron as attacked in the...

Troilus of Constantinople (Ancient Greek: Τρώϊλος) was a sophist from Side in Pamphylia of the late 4th and early 5th century. He taught in Constantinople...

Timaeus the Sophist (‹See Tfd›Greek: Τίμαιος ὁ Σοφιστής) was a Greek philosopher who lived sometime between the 1st and 4th centuries. Nothing is known...

Eunapius (Greek: Εὐνάπιος; c. 347 - c. 420) was a Greek sophist, rhetorician, and historian from Sardis in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor. His principal...