Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These ...

The Sophist is one of the late Dialogues of Plato. This dialogue takes place a day after Plato's Theaetetus, and aims at defining the Sophist. The participants are Socrates, who plays a minor role ...

The Sophists. The first major thinker to move to Athens from abroad was Anaxagoras. Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged religious opinion by claiming (correctly) that ...

The sophists were the original TED talkers (in my humble opinion). They were professional debaters who could convince you that the sky was green – if you paid them enough.

The sophists may be ancient, but some of their wisdom still holds up – no overpriced seminar required. Francis Kong will run his highly acclaimed Level Up Leadership – The Next Edge, but ...

In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates does not learn to argue, he will be unable to defend himself in court. Rhetoric, Callicles ...

Socrates and the Sophists. NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED Professor Goodwin will give the second of the course of lectures on Greek Philosophy in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock this ...