The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

Larissa is thought to be where the famous Greek physician Hippocrates and the famous philosopher Gorgias of Leontini died.

While Plato's condemnation of rhetoric is clear in the Gorgias, in the Phaedrus he suggests the possibility of a true art wherein rhetoric is based upon the knowledge produced by dialectic, and relies on a dialectically informed rhetoric to appeal to the main character: Phaedrus, to take up philosophy.

Another reference is in Plato's Gorgias dialogue.

In the ensuing battle, Judas Maccabeus and his men succeed in repelling Gorgias and forcing his army out of Judea and down to the coastal plain in what is an important victory in the war for Judea's independence.

Solipsism is first recorded with the Greek presocratic sophist, Gorgias ( c. 483 – 375 BC ) who is quoted by the Roman skeptic Sextus Empiricus as having stated:

Thersites is also mentioned in Plato's Gorgias ( 525e ) as an example of a soul that can be cured in the afterlife ; and in The Republic he chooses to be reborn as an ape.

In contrast with Gorgias and others, who boasted of possessing the art of making the small appear great, the great small, and of expatiating in long or short speeches, Prodicus required that the speech should be neither long nor short, but of the proper measure, and it is only as associated with other sophists that he is charged with endeavouring to make the weaker cause appear strong by means of his rhetoric.

Prodicus, Gorgias, Hippias, and Thrasymachus all appear in various Platonic dialogues, sometimes explicitly teaching that, while nature provides no ethical guidance, the guidance that the laws provide is worthless, or that nature favors those who act against the laws.

The Torah, and the study of ethics which forms a part of practical philosophy and is designated, by an expression borrowed from Plato (" Gorgias ," 464 ), as the " doctrine of the healing of souls ," are the guiding stars to this exalted plane ; but no scientific presentation of practical philosophy approaches in this regard the lofty heights of the Scriptures, wherein are clearly expressed the most sublime moral principles known to philosophers ( ib.

Aristides is praised by Socrates in Plato's dialogues Gorgias and

In it, Gorgias offers several justifications for excusing Helen of Troy's adultery — notably, that she was persuaded by speech, which is a " powerful lord " or " powerful drug " depending on the translation.

In On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias, Pseudo-Aristotle states that Melissus made a claim that The One is qualitatively the same.

( As Sachs points out, this is indeed what Plato depicts Socrates doing in his Gorgias.

Young, good-looking and well-born, Meno is a student of Gorgias, a prominent sophist whose views on virtue clearly influence Meno's.

Meno responds that, according to Gorgias, virtue is different for different people, that what is virtuous for a man is to conduct himself in the city so that he helps his friends, injures his enemies, and takes care all the while that he personally comes to no harm.

* Gorgias: The famous teacher of rhetoric, he is named in line 421 as the father or teacher of Phillipus, a recent victim of irate jurors.

Plato made extensive use of this tone in his Gorgias, Euthydemus, Republic, and Laws, and it is thematic in Xenophon's Symposium and the fourth book of his Memorabilia.

In the Gorgias, Socrates argues that philosophy is an art, whereas rhetoric is merely a knack.

In " Gorgias ," one of his Socratic Dialogues, Plato defines rhetoric as the persuasion of ignorant masses within the courts and assemblies.

Plato's explores the problematic moral status of rhetoric twice: in Gorgias, a dialogue named for the famed Sophist, and in The Phaedrus, a dialogue best known for its commentary on love.

* Gorgias ( dialogue )

He features heavily in the Gorgias, a dialogue on the nature of government as a rude and volatile character.

Plato mentions Epicharmus in his dialogue Gorgias and in Theaetetus.

The dialogue begins just after Gorgias has given a speech.

Socrates ends the dialogue by telling Callicles, Polus, and Gorgias a story that they will regard as a myth, but which he regards as true ( 523a ).

Chaerephon then says that Gorgias is a friend of his and, with some coaching by Socrates, he serves satisfactorily as Gorgias ' initial interlocutor in the early part of the dialogue.

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In the Gorgias written years later Plato has Socrates contemplating the possibility of himself on trial before the Athenians: he says he would be like a doctor prosecuted by a pastry chef before a jury of children.

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

In his Encomium to Helen, Gorgias even applied rhetoric to fiction by seeking for his own pleasure to prove the blamelessness of the mythical Helen of Troy in starting the Trojan War.

Teaching in oratory was popularized in the 5th century BC by itinerant teachers known as sophists, the best known of whom were Protagoras ( c. 481-420 BC ), Gorgias ( c. 483-376 BC ), and Isocrates ( 436-338 BC ).

* In an effort to blockade Sparta from access to Sicilian corn, Athens responds to a plea for help from a delegation from the city of Leontini led by Gorgias, the sophist and rhetorician.

* The Battle of Emmaus takes place between the Jewish rebels led by Judas Maccabeus and Seleucid forces sent by Antiochus IV and led by Lysias and his general, Gorgias.

He was greatly influenced by his sophist teachers, Prodicus and Gorgias, and was also closely acquainted with Socrates.

* Gorgias: A renowned orator from Sicily – he and his student ( or son ) Philippus are barbarous monstrosities disfigured by their versatile tongues ( line 1701 ).

Then in the Battle of Emmaus, Judah proceeded to defeat the Seleucid forces led by generals Nicanor and Gorgias.

The English translation of the history of the “ Apostolische Kirche des Ostens ” by Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar Winkler has already been published by Routledge Curzon Press in London, and the English translation of Baum ’ s biography of the Christian queen Shirin of Persia (+ 628 ) was published by Gorgias Press in New Jersey, USA ( Shirin.

Some have argued that Gorgias may have been uncharacteristically portrayed by Plato, because "… Plato's Gorgias agrees to the binary opposition knowledge vs. opinion " ( 82 ).

Although Plato does not have an explicit theory of natural law ( he almost never uses the phrase natural law except in Gorgias 484 and Timaeus 83e ), his concept of nature, according to John Wild, contains some of the elements found in many natural law theories.

Plato ( 427-347 BC ) famously outlined the differences between true and false rhetoric in a number of dialogues ; particularly the Gorgias and Phaedrus wherein Plato disputes the sophistic notion that the art of persuasion ( the sophists ' art which he calls " rhetoric "), can exist independent of the art of dialectic.

Famously Plato argued against sophist thinkers such as Gorgias of Leontini, who held the physical world cannot be experienced except through language, this meant that for Gorgias the question of truth was dependent on aesthetic preferences or functional consequences.

In the Gorgias, Plato ( c. 400 BC ) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.

He was supposed to judge the souls of easterners, Aeacus those of westerners, while Minos had the casting vote ( Plato, Gorgias 524A ).

His favourite style seems to have been dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as on Alcibiades in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho.

The Apology of Plato unites him with Gorgias and Hippias as among those who were considered competent to instruct the youth in any city.

Thrasymachus ’ s views are restatements of a position which Plato discusses earlier on in his writings, in the Gorgias, through the mouthpiece of Callicles.

As a scholar Thompson devoted his attention almost entirely to Plato ; and his Phaedrus ( 1868 ) and Gorgias ( 1871 ), with especially valuable introductions, remained as the standard English editions of these two dialogues for over forty years.

* Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus

Their influence was likewise longlasting ; Gorgias, a Sophist, argued in the style of the Eleatics in On Nature or What Is Not, and Plato acknowledged them in the Parmenides, the Sophist and the Statesman.

Among his writings and publications are these: Editions of the Alcestis of Euripides ( 1834 ), of the Antigone of Sophocles ( 1835 ), of the Prometheus of &# 198 ; schylus ( 1837 ), of the Electra of Sophocles ( 1837 ), and of the Gorgias of Plato ( 1843 ); an edition of Lieber's Civil liberty and Self Government, and:

Metrodorus also wrote Against the Euthyphro, and Against the Gorgias of Plato.