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087 Rhetoric and the Sophists
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In this episode, we describe the development of rhetoric in the ancient Greek world as an art that could be studied and employed in the law courts and politics, and its importance especially in Classical Athens; the roles and various opinions of the Sophists, who were lecturers that traveled from city to city, teaching not only rhetoric but also all of the other subjects that were not being covered by traditional education; and the lives, influences, writings, and various theories put forth by the earliest Rhetoricians and Sophists, including Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus, and Thrasymachus, as well as synopses on four of Plato's dialogues (Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias Major, and Hippias Minor)
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/02/087-rhetoric-and-sophists.html
Intro by Devon Field of the Human Circus podcast
Website: https://humancircuspodcast.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/circus_human
166 episodes
Manage episode 226853007 series 1428280
In this episode, we describe the development of rhetoric in the ancient Greek world as an art that could be studied and employed in the law courts and politics, and its importance especially in Classical Athens; the roles and various opinions of the Sophists, who were lecturers that traveled from city to city, teaching not only rhetoric but also all of the other subjects that were not being covered by traditional education; and the lives, influences, writings, and various theories put forth by the earliest Rhetoricians and Sophists, including Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus, and Thrasymachus, as well as synopses on four of Plato's dialogues (Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias Major, and Hippias Minor)
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/02/087-rhetoric-and-sophists.html
Intro by Devon Field of the Human Circus podcast
Website: https://humancircuspodcast.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/circus_human
166 episodes
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