Gorgias: Sophist and Artist

by Scott Consigny

A critical reevaluation of the words of a classical thinker

Of the ancient Greek Sophists, Gorgias of Leontini (ca. 483-ca. 376 b.c.e.) has endured more than his share of insistent detractors. Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato considered him an opportunistic charlatan indifferent to truth and morality, and Aristotle saw him as a gaudy but inept stylist.

Scott Consigny joins the commentators who find merit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570034249
• ISBN13: 9781570034244
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"