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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"hippias"”.
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
… <em>Protagoras</em>, <em>Euthydemus</em>, <em>Hippias Major </em>and <em>Hippias Minor</em>, where they perform within a competitive context alongside Socrates, we see that the behavior of both is strikingly similar. Both Socrates and the sophists use the speech practices of dialectic and …
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
… and shows how Lucian’s use of enargeia in the Hippias and Icaromenippus can solicit bodily engagement on the part of the readers as much as it can prompt critical thinking about the role, function and effects of enargeia itself. Chapter Three moves the study of ecphrasis beyond the traditional …
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The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue
This dissertation is a study of the Greek sophists as teachers of <i>aretê</i> (virtue or human excellence) and a study of the conflict between sophistic and Socratic political values as portrayed in the dialogues of Plato. The first section offers a new definition of the term "sophist" based on …