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Gorgias
Greek presocratic philosopher and sophist (483–375 BC)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 483 BCE, 485 BCE
- Died
- 375 BCE
- Place of birth
- Lentini
- Place of death
- Larissa
- Sex or gender
- male
- Movement
- sophism, Pre-Socratic philosophy, sophist
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Occupation
- sophist
- depicted by
- Gorgias statue at Olympia
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa
- different from
- Gordias, Gorgias of Athens
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Attic Greek, Ancient Greek
- name in native language
- Γοργίας
- significant place
- Leontini
- student
- Hippocrates, Isocrates, Polus
- student of
- Empedocles, Tisias
- writing language
- Attic Greek
Connected on Wikidata
Appears in
Subject of
- On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
- Gorgias 8 (Pauly-Wissowa)
- Johannes Wienand: Der politische Tod. Gefallenenbestattung und Epitaphios Logos im demokratischen Athen. Stuttgart: Steiner 2023
- Johannes Wienand, Gorgias und Thukydides. Sterben für das Imperium? In: J. Wienand, Der politische Tod. Gefallenenbestattung und Epitaphios Logos im demokratischen Athen, Stuttgart 2023, 155-196
- Philosophy program for Italian high school
- Johannes Wienand, Gorgias’ Funeral Oration, in: David Pritchard (ed.), The Athenian Funeral Oration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024, 181–197
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