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Alcidamas of Elaea
Alcidamas
also: Alcidamas
A fourth-century BC Greek sophist and rhetorician, pupil of Gorgias, author among other works of an Encomium of Death cataloguing the ills of human life. Cicero credits him with eloquence but not philosophical rigor.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.116 Alcidamas, indeed, a rhetorician of the ancients
Alcidamas of Elaea, the fourth-century sophist and pupil of Gorgias, author of an Encomium of Death cataloguing human ills. Cicero notes he had eloquence but lacked the philosophers' rigorous reasoning.