Gorgias/Gorgias: The Sicilian Orator and the Platonic Dialogue with new translations of the Helen, Palamedes, and On Not Being

• Main Author: Montgomery Ewegen, S. (auth)
• Other Authors: Zoller, Coleen P. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Parnassos Press - Fonte Aretusa 2022
• Subjects: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Philosophy; Language & Literature
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Gorgias of Leontinoi in Sicily is widely considered to be the most prominent and important of the sophists. He traveled to Athens in 427 BCE-about the time Plato was born-where he earned both the ire of philosophers and the obols of young men keen on learning the powerful art of logos. As the dialog...