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Gorgias of Leontini

Gorgias

Greek sophist and rhetorician (c. 483-376 BC); reputedly the first to take any topic at the audience's request. The figure of Plato's Gorgias.

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Mentioned in 7 works (17 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention
On the Orator rhetoric · 3 mentions
Brutus rhetoric · 3 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 6 mentions
Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 16.21 letters · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 2 mentions

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