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Sophists (Greek philosophy)

Ancient Greek teacher who taught "virtue" to young statesmen and nobles, often using philosophy and rhetoric

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    The lives of the sophists / Philostratus and Eurapius ; with an English translation by Wilmer Cave Wright.

    Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century. | Date: 1968
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    Making men : sophists and self-presentation in ancient Rome / Maud W. Gleason.

    Gleason, Maud W., 1954- | Date: [1995], ©1995
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    Greek sophists in the Roman Empire / G.W. Bowersock.

    Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936- | Date: 1969
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    Sophistical rhetoric in classical Greece / John Poulakos.

    Poulakos, John, 1948- | Date: c1995
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    Greek sophists in the Roman Empire [by] G. W. Bowersock.

    Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936- | Date: 1969

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