CLST 102 Lecture 18: CLST102 WEEK6

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

Document Summary

Sophistes = sage or wise man khoros = dance/chorus. In the late 5th century the word was used to mean itinerant professors specializing in rhetoric, who were very successful in athens where such skill was highly appreciated. Sophists were not member of a school" or a single movement. Their writings are lost and what we know about them is what their. They claimed to teach arete (goodness, excellence) The content of their teaching was primarily intellectual and rhetorical opponents say skill. Gorgias from leontinoi in sicily famous for his ability to speak on any subject and defend convincingly positions that were unpopular, paradoxical or absurd. In his praise of helen he argued that she was not to blame because she was a victim of peitho persuasion which is invincible. In the 390s isokrates set up the first university at athens.