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Name: Gorgias
Birth Date: c. 480 B.C.
Death Date: c. 376 B.C.
Place of Birth: Leontini, Sicily
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: sophist, rhetorician

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Biography of Gorgias
401 words, approx. 1 pages
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....
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Biography of Gorgias of Leontini
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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...


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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...


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