• A sophist (Greek: 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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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Polycrates (c.440-370 B.C.) was a sophist of Athens, who later retired to Cyprus. He wrote a work titled The Indictment of Socrates, thought to have been...
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  • Abas (Greek: Ἄβας) was an ancient Greek sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries...
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  • The name Antiphon the Sophist (/ˈæntəˌfɒn, -ən/; Greek: Ἀντιφῶν) is used to refer to the writer of several Sophistic treatises. He probably lived in Athens...
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  • generalship, and oration. Closely associated with his brother and fellow sophist Euthydemus, he is depicted in the writing of Plato and Xenophon. Plato's...
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  • "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...
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  • 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...
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    Second Sophistic (category Roman-era Sophists)
    who were catalogued and celebrated by Philostratus in his Lives of the Sophists. However, some recent research has indicated that this Second Sophistic...
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  • "Against the Sophists" is among the few Isocratic speeches that have survived from Ancient Greece. This polemical text was Isocrates' attempt to define...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • (appears in Shabbat 145b and Yevamot 45b) Choricius of Gaza (c. 500), Greek sophist and rhetorician Gaza Triad, three 6th Century Christian theologians from...
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    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...
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    Rhetoric (section Sophists)
    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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  • Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens. He was a son of Onasimus (Ancient Greek: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist. It is not...
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  • Philostratus (category Roman-era Sophists)
    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...
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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...
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    student Zeno, which criticizes Plato's own metaphysical theories. Plato's Sophist dialogue includes an Eleatic stranger. These ideas about change and permanence...
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  • (/ˈlaɪkəfrɒn/ LY-kə-fron; Greek: Λυκόφρων, translit. Lukóphrōn) was a sophist of Ancient Greece. The central point about Lycrophron as attacked in the...
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  • Richard Rufus (Latin: Ricardus Rufus, lit. "Richard the Red"; d. c. AD 1260) was a Cornish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. Richard Rufus...
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  • Gorgias (category Sophists)
    Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας; 483–375 BC) was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi...
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  • 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...
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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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  • Eusebius was an Arab sophist and tutor of the 4th century AD. known to had been active in Antioch during the reign of emperor Constantine I (306–337)...
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  • Thrasymachus (category Sophists)
    (/θræˈsɪməkəs/; Greek: Θρασύμαχος Thrasýmachos; c. 459 – c. 400 BC) was a sophist of ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's Republic. Thrasymachus...
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  • 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...
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