Corey, David D.,

The sophists in Plato's Dialogues /David D. Corey. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Defining the platonic sophists -- The "great speech" in Plato's Protagoras -- Prodicus: diplomat, sophist and teacher of Socrates -- The sophist Hippias and the problem of Polytropia -- Brother sophists: Euthydemus and Dionysodorus -- Protagorean sophistry in Plato's Theaetetus -- Plato's Critique of the sophists? -- Appendix: a primer on Hesiod's Myth of Prometheus.



9781438456195


Plato --


Philosophy-Ancient
Sophists (Greek philosophy)


Electronic Books.

B395 / .S674 2015