Gorgias: The Dialogues of Plato

Gorgias by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Gorgias; c. 485 - c. 380 BC, was a Greek sophist, Siceliote, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician who was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophists, he was an itinerant that practiced in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at ...