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...

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας; 483–375 BC) was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi...

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...

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...

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

Protrepticus is important for the study of the sophists because it preserved about ten pages of an otherwise unknown sophist known as the Anonymus Iamblichi. According...

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...

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...

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...

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...

work (Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is...

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)...

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

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

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

(/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...