Γοργίας
Γοργίας
-ου, Gorgias, of Leontini in Sicily, a famous rhetorician of the fifth century B.C. He came to Athens in 427, and earned large
fees by his teaching, Proxenus being among his pupils. He maintained that ‘nothing exists; if anything does exist, it cannot be known; even if it can be known, the knowledge of it cannot be made clear to others.’
Headword (normalized):
γοργίας
Headword (normalized/stripped):
γοργιας
Intro Text:
Γοργίας
-ου, Gorgias, of Leontini in Sicily, a famous rhetorician of the fifth century B.C. He came to Athens in 427, and earned large
fees by his teaching, Proxenus being among his pupils. He maintained that ‘nothing exists; if anything does exist, it cannot be known; even if it can be known, the knowledge of it cannot be made clear to others.’
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:anabasis-mather-534
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