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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.

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Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 2 mentions

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