Offering a re-evaluation of all the available evidence, including passages from Aristotle's Rhetoric , Poetics and Sophistici Elenchi Diogenes Laertius’ biographical sketch as well grammar scene in Aristophanes’ Clouds this article argues that Protagoras’ engagement with grammatical questions must have been more sophisticated thorough than is often assumed. In discovery gender, formal considera...

There is no category of thought more deliberately or explicitly relegated to a subordinate role in Plato’s dialogues than Sophists and sophistry. It due influence that terms “sophist” “sophistry” handed down us have unilaterally negative associations—synonymous with lies deception, obscurantism false reasoning. are several reasons be dubious this standard view the their practices. The primary r...