Sophists

'Sophists' -- such men as Thrasymachus from Chalcedon in Bithynia, Gorgias from Leontini in Sicily, Protagoras from Abdera in Thrace, and other foreign scholars and rhetoricians who had flocked to Athens as the intellectual centre of the Hellenic world.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Some persons say that the Sophists are the corrupters of youth; but is not public opinion the real Sophist who is everywhere present — in those very persons, in the assembly, in the courts, in the camp, in the applauses and hisses of the theatre re-echoed by the surrounding hills?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Nevertheless, let us assume that the Sophists are the men.

The Sophist 2006

Poets as well as philosophers were called Sophists in the fifth century before

The Sophist 2006

Later the traveling teachers, known as the Sophists, began to apply the results and the methods of the natural philosophers to human conduct.

democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916

Later the traveling teachers, known as the Sophists, began to apply the results and the methods of the natural philosophers to human conduct.

Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905

New teachers, known as Sophists, who professed to be able to train men for a political career, [5] began to offer a more practical course designed to prepare boys for the newer type of state service.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

"I am content that you should think so, since a recent great historian has decided that the Sophists were a sadly maligned sect, and, instead of becoming a synonyme of reproach, merited the everlasting gratitude of mankind, as the tireless public teachers of Greece -- the walking-school system of Athens in her imperial, palmy days."

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

Why, that all those mercenary individuals, whom the many call Sophists and whom they deem to be their adversaries, do, in fact, teach nothing but the opinion of the many, that is to say, the opinions of their assemblies; and this is their wisdom.

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Some persons say that the Sophists are the corrupters of youth; but is not public opinion the real Sophist who is everywhere present -- in those very persons, in the assembly, in the courts, in the camp, in the applauses and hisses of the theatre re-echoed by the surrounding hills?

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855