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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

While Gorgias was searching for him in the mountains, Judah made a surprise attack upon the Seleucid camp and defeated the Seleucid at the Battle of Emmaus.

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.

Some, like Gorgias, were foreigners attracted to Athens because of its reputation for intellectual and cultural sophistication.

Socrates gets Gorgias to agree to his cross-examination style of conversation, asks him questions, and praises him for the brevity of his replies.

Gorgias does not deny that his students might use their skills for immoral purposes ( such as persuading the assembly to make an unwise decision, or to let a guilty man go free ), but he says the teacher cannot be held responsible for this.

This is inaccurate because, " for Gorgias the sophist, all ' knowledge ' is opinion.

The generals for the expedition were Gorgias, Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes and Nicanor.

So Gorgias and his men scoured the hills for Jewish soldiers.

At the start of the Gorgias, Chaerephon and Socrates arrive late at an Athenian gathering for an evening of conversation with Gorgias, a famed Sophist.

He was the author of editions of the Euthydemus and Gorgias of Plato ( 1784 ), to which Karl Wilhelm Dindorf declared himself indebted for his first ideas of Greek criticism, and of Gilbert Burnet's History of his Own Time ( 2nd ed., 1833 ) and History of the Reign of King James the Second ( 1852 ).

Jebb entertained the possibility that this work survives in the form of the Encomium of Helen ascribed to Gorgias: " It appears not improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to Gorgias.

Pease surveys this field from its origins with the defence of Helen ascribed to Gorgias, and cites De Quincey ’ s On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts and Lewis Carroll ’ s Through the Looking-Glass as modern examples.

He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, whose rival and opponent he was.

He was still teaching in 515, since Olympiodorus heard him lecture on Plato's Gorgias in that year.

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 ).

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

In his youth he fought at Tanagra ( 426 BCE ), and was a disciple first of Gorgias, and then of Socrates, at whose death he was present.

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

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.

He was a pupil of the famous orator Gorgias, and teacher of rhetoric from the city of Acragas, Sicily.

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.

Socrates discusses the morality of rhetoric with Gorgias, asking him if rhetoric was just.

Gorgias established his base camp at the town of Emmaus, along the western border of Judea, while Judas Maccabeus ' camp was located in the town of Mitzpah, north of Jerusalem.

Word reached Maccabeus that Gorgias was leading 5, 000 troops on a march against his camp and was planning to surprise the Jewish rebels in a night-time attack, Judas abandoned his camp and led his forces to Emmaus, to attack the Hellenic base camp that remained there.

Euripides ' Antiope, presented about 408 BCE, was widely quoted, in Plato's Gorgias and many other authors, resulting in a large array of fragments.

He was the author of An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric ( 1867 ), a standard work ; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by JE Sandys ( 1877 ); translations of Plato's Gorgias ( 2nd ed., 1884 ) and Phaedo ( revised by H Jackson, 1875 ).

The treatise shows the development of Aristotle's thought through two different periods while he was in Athens, and illustrates Aristotle's expansion of the study of rhetoric beyond Plato's early criticism of it in the Gorgias ( ca.

Some believe Meletus was motivated primarily by the reports that Socrates had embarrassed the poets in his denunciation of the poets as depicted in such dialogues as the Gorgias.

He was the author of a treatise on the figures of speech ( de Figuris sententiarum et elocutionis ), abridged from a similar work by the rhetorician Gorgias of Athens, not the well-known sophist of Leontini, the tutor of Cicero's son.

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.

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.

* 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.

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:

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.

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

* 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.

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.

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 ).