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THE SOPHISTS (c.450 - c.350 BCE)

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• Gorgias (c.483 - c.376 BCE)

• Protagoras (c.481 - c.411 BCE)

• Prodicus of Ceos (c.465 - c.415 BCE)

• Thrasymachus (c. 459 - c.400 BCE)

• Antiphon (? - ? BCE)

• Callicles (? - ? BCE)

• Corax of Syracuse (5th Century BCE)

• Cratylus (? - ? BCE)

• Hippias ( ? - ? BCE)

• Tisias (5th Century BCE)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Dillon, John, and Tania Gergel, eds.  The Greek Sophists.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.
  • Gagarin, Michael, and Paul Woodruff, eds.  Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists.  1995.
  • Sprague, Rosamund Kent, ed.  The Older Sophists: a Complete Translation by Several Hands.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1972.  Rpt. 1990.
  • Waterfield, Robin, ed.  The First Philosophers: the Presocratics and the Sophists.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Anon.  "Dissoi Logoi."  c.403-395 BCE.

    • The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.  Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  New York: Bedford, 2000.  47-55.

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• Archives:

  • Peitho's Web Classic Rhetoric and Persuasion

• Selected Individual Works:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Jarrett, James L., ed.  The Educational Theories of the Sophists.  Columbia: Teachers College Press, 1969.

  • Kerferd, George B., ed.  The Sophists and their Legacy.  Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1981.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Gibert, John.  "The Sophists."  Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy.  Ed. Christopher Shields.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.  27-50.

  • Crowley, Sharon.  "A Plea for the Revival of Sophistry."  Rhetoric Review 7.2 (1989): 318-337.

  • Guthrie, W. K. C.  The Sophists.  Vol. 3 Part I of History of Greek Philosophy.  6 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969.

  • Jarratt, Susan C.  Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

  • Jarratt, Susan C.  "The First Sophists and the Uses of History."  Rhetoric Review 6.1 (1987): 67-78.

  • Kennedy, George A.  "Sophists and Rhetorical Handbooks."  Classical Criticism.  Ed. George A. Kennedy.  Vol. 1 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1989.  185.

  • Kerferd, G. B.  "The Sophists."  From the Beginning to Plato.  Ed. C. C. W. Taylor.  Vol. 1 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.  244-270.

  • Kerferd, George B.  The Sophistic Movement.  Cambridge: CUP, 1981.

  • Leff, Michael C.  "Modern Sophistic and the Unity of Rhetoric."  The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs.  Ed. John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and Donald N. McCloskey.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987.  19-37.
  • Moss, Roger.  "The Case for Sophistry."  Rhetoric Revalued.  Ed. Brian Vickers.  Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982.  207-24.
  • Poulakos, John.  "Interpreting Sophistic Rhetoric: a Response to Schiappa."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 23 (1990): 218-28.
  • Poulakos, John.  "Rhetoric, the Sophists, and the Possible."  Communication Monographs 51 (1984): 215-26.
  • Poulakos, John.  Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1995.
  • Poulakos, John.  "Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 16 (1983): 35-48.
  • Reydams-Schils, Gretchen.  The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.
  • Romilly, Jacqueline de.  Les Grands Sophists dans l'Athèns de Périclès.  Fallois, 1988
    • The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens.  Trans. Janet Lloyd.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.

  • Schiappa, Edward.  “Sophistic Rhetoric: Oasis or Mirage?”  Rhetoric Review 10 (1991): 5-19.

  • Schiappa, Edward.  "Neo-Sophistic Rhetorical Criticism or the Historical Reconstruction of Sophistic Doctrines?"  Philosophy and Rhetoric 23 (1990): 192-217.

  • Untersteiner, Mario.  The Sophists.  Trans. Kathleen Freeman.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.

On-Line:

• Baird, Forrest: The Sophists

• Bradshaw, David: The Sophists

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Sophists

• Classics Technology on the Web: Philosophical Background of the Fifth Century BC: PreSocratics and Sophists

• Dunkle, Roger:

  • Philosophical Background of the Fifth Century BC

  • The Sophists

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Sophists

• Kerferd, George Briscoe: Sophists

• Perseus Encyclopedia: The Sophists

• Radical Academy: Philosophy of the Sophists

• Wattles, Jeffrey: The Sophists

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

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  • Sophism

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