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...

second century CE. He was the son of the renowned sophist Polemon of Laodicea, and grandfather of a sophist named Hermocrates of Phocaea. Most of what we...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

(Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. 'The Dinner Sophists', where sophists may be translated more loosely as 'sages, philosophers, experts')...

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...

The name Antiphon the Sophist (/ˈæntəˌfɒn, -ən/; Ancient 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...

Polycrates (Greek: Πολυκράτης c. 440-370 B.C.) was a sophist from Athens, who later retired to the island of Cyprus. He wrote a work titled The Indictment...

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...

"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...

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...

Callistratus (Koinē Greek: Καλλίστρατος), Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd (or possibly 4th) century CE. He wrote Ekphraseis...

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...

the interest of "a young sophist who was indifferent to the charms of love". When Salome presents to him John's head, the sophist rejects it, remarking in...

GOR-jee-əs; Ancient Greek: Γοργίας; c. 483 BC – c. 375 BC) was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi...

Alcidamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιδάμας), of Elaea, in Aeolis, was a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the 5th-4th century BC [1]. He was the...

(/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...

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...