Welcome to a weekly journey through the greatest works of ancient Greece and Rome. On our first column, we turn to ...

The Sophists Ancient Greek texts, from The Greeks documentary The first major thinker to move to Athens from abroad was Anaxagoras. Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged ...

The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” ...

The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” They were essentially ...

But the essential nature of a culture war is invariant: A set of traditional values comes under attack by those who, like the Greek Sophist, the French philosophe and the American intellectual ...

The basic facts are these. Around the age of 15, Regilla wed Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, about age 40, a Greek sophist philosopher who had inherited a vast fortune.

Sophists had prestige in ancient Greek society From C D A Evans, Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, New York, NY, US ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on ...

THERE exists a certain class of mind, allied perhaps to the ancient Greek Sophist variety, to which ignorance of a subject offers no sufficient obstacle to the composition of a treatise upon it ...