Letters of Alciphron

ALCIPHRON, a Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Respecting his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information what­ever. Some of the earlier critics placed him, without any plausible reason, in the fifth century CE. Others who followed them placed Alciphron in the period between Lucian and Aristaenetus, that is, between 170 and 350 CE, while others again assign to him a date even earlier than the time of Lucian. The only circumstance th...