Gorgias (ca. 480-ca. 376 BC) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician. He believed that prose should rival poetry as a vehicle of persuasive and lofty expression and made important contributions to the development of epideictic, or ceremonial, oratory....

Although Gorgias made major original contributions in the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, he is probably best known as the antagonist of Socrates' ideas in the Platonic dialogue titled Gorgias (circa 388 B.C.). He is indeed an appropriate, if...

Gorgias of Leontini(C. 485 In The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, edited by A. A. Long. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,...

Gorgias (Greek: Γοργίας, ca. 487-376 BC), Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Gorgias Introduction: The object of the Republic was to dramatize the concept of justice. Since the Republic is largely taken up with the views of Socrates, the opposing views of Thrasymachus and Glaucon are not given much of a defense. It...

By Scott Consigny. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001; pp. xiii + 242. $39.95. Interest in the Sophists as teachers and theorists of argumentative discourse continues to grow among scholars in Communication Studies, Classics, and English. In recent years, book-length studies...