Mon 3/23 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street
The classicist and author presents his book The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece a ...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Collectors Edition! Protagoras is the most famous sophist in Greece but Socrates is skeptical as to what a sophist can achieve. Protagoras believes that the job of a sophist is to teach people how to...
Demonstrates the continuing importance of the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition - all the main thinkers from Thales to the Sophists.