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.