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Gorgias

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Gorgias (c. 483-c. 380 BC)

Greek orator and sophist from Sicily. He was the subject of a dialogue by Plato, who was deeply critical of his cynical view of the powers of persuasion. Gorgias was renowned for his obscure and sophisticated style. His Praise of Helen and Palamedes survive, in which he conducts elaborate and at times contrived defences of two mythical figures accused of treacherous conduct.



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Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.
Meno by Plato View in context
Gorgias of Leontium, partly entertaining the same doubt, and partly in jest, says, that as a mortar is made by a mortar-maker, so a citizen is made by a citizen-maker, and a Larisssean by a Larisssean-maker.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
0 BDT ,B­,L - and the intellect, electrified, surpasses as greatly its every-day condition, as does the vivid yet candid reason of Leibnitz, the mad and flimsy rhetoric of Gorgias.
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