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Gorgias of Leontini

Gorgias of Leontini

483 BCE–376 BCE · Larissa

Gorgias was a Greek rhetorician and one of the leading Sophists, born in the Sicilian city of Leontini and active in the 5th and early 4th centuries BCE. Famous for his dazzling, ornate prose style and for skeptical arguments about being and knowledge, he traveled widely as a teacher of persuasion and lends his name to one of Plato's dialogues. He is traditionally said to have lived to a very great age.

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LeontiniSicily

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Born in Leontini, Sicily, c.485 BCE; ancient sources make him a pupil of Empedocles of Acragas. Birth year is approximate, inferred from his reputed extreme longevity (reportedly over 100).

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