The Classical Greek sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others – are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and ...

SOPHISTS (Greek: sophistai) refers to experts, wise persons or learned men. Categorised into schools, their origin is traceable to the Greek civilisation of the 5th and 4th centuries. Cancel anytime.

Arguing that 'man is the measure of all things', the Sophists were skeptical about the existence of the gods and taught a variety of subjects, including mathematics, grammar, physics, political ...

Thinkers, called Sophists, migrated to the city from their traditional homes on the coast of Western Turkey. Historians, such as Herodotus, moved to the city to complete their researches.

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

And they will not get the truth from the school. It’s for the child’s “safety” and because our schools are “welcoming,” say ...

This book offers a new way of looking at the 5th century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and presenting them as individuals rather than a “movement”, each with ...

Parenting and its attendant anxieties underlie a number of our recommended books this week, from Jonathan Haidt’s manifesto ...

Current interests include issues of kingship and gender in Herodotus; the use of local traditions in the panhellenic poetry of Pindar; Euripides and the sophists; Odysseus in Greek tragedy; the ...

I'm Ana Saro from Palantir's finance team, and I'd like to welcome you to our first quarter 2024 earnings call. We'll be discussing the results announced in our press release issued after the market ...

In their abuse of language, Nietzsche and Butler fit right in among the sophists, Socrates’ seemingly rational but quickly dispensed with adversaries in Plato’s Dialogues. Plato, as the foundational ...