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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

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:

Plato mentions Epicharmus in his dialogue Gorgias and in Theaetetus.

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.

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

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 ).

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 ).

* Gorgias, Greek philosopher ( approximate date ) ( d. c. 376 BC )

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:

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.

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.

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.

Gorgias Press, Piscataway, New Jersey.

Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias.

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

* the value and proper aims of philosophy ( in the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, etc.

According to the Sophists, such as Gorgias, a successful rhetorician could speak convincingly on any topic, regardless of his experience in that field.

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.

Demosthenes and Lysias emerged as major orators during this period, and Isocrates and Gorgias as prominent teachers.

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.

In ~ 400 BCE, pre-socratic philosopher Gorgias argued in a lost work, On Nature or the Non-Existent:

: Gorgias ( 487-376 BC )

* 483 BC – Gorgias, Greek philosopher ( approximate date )

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

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

* At the Battle of the Hydaspes River only five battalions took part, and were those of ( from right to left ): Antigenes, Clitus the White, Meleager, Attalus, Gorgias.