sophist
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While Herodotus suggests the workings of fate in the earlier Persian Wars by reporting multiple opinions, Thucydides, likely influenced by Sophist philosophy, stages Athens’s inner conflict during the Peloponnesian War through imaginary dialogues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Whereas the philosopher sought the truth in a dispassionate way using reason as a guide, the Sophist addressing a crowd was indifferent to truth, seeking power and influence by appealing to the audience’s emotions.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
One of the dialogues features a young man named Meno who is the pupil of a prominent Sophist.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In his satiric play, The Clouds, Aristophanes pictured Socrates as a ragged leader of the rabble, a Sophist, "a thoroughly subversive influence."
From Time Magazine Archive
He is said to have received his medical education from his father and from Herodicus, and to have been taught philosophy by Gorgias, the Sophist, and by Democritus, whom he afterwards cured of mental derangement.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by Elliott, James Sands
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