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"Is there such a thing as "American sophistication"-or is it a contradiction in terms? Those questions have been up for grabs since America's founding. The idea of sophistication has always left...

This edition collects all the surviving evidence for the fifth-century BCE Athenian sophist Antiphon and presents it together with a translation and a full commentary, which assesses its reliability...

The Classical Greek sophists - Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others - are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and...

By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was...

Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels, Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...

The arrival of the Sophists in Athens in the middle of the fifth century B.C. was a major intellectual event, for they brought with them a new method of teaching founded on rhetoric and bold...

H.d. Rankin. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 254-256.

This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic...

Product description Au tournant des Ve et IVe sicles avant J.-C., Athnes est le thtre d'un dbat civique et intellectuel d'une vivacit et d'une richesse extraordinaires. L'affrontement des...

Text: German, Greek