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Those ancient Greeks who called themselves, or were called by others, Sophists. The term was popular both in the 5th century BC and the 2nd century AD (the Second Sophistic). The target of sophist as an insult does not belong here.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
A sophist (Greek: σοφιστής, romanized: sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics and mathematics. They taught arete, "virtue" or "excellence", predominantly to young statesmen and nobility.
Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome (1995) Guast, William (2023). Greek declamation and the Roman Empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009297127. Simon Swain, Hellenism and Empire. Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 (1996 Oxford) Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic (2005 Oxford)
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Attalus (Ancient Greek: Ἄτταλος) was an ancient Greek philosopher in the Second Sophistic tradition, who lived during the second century CE.. He was the son of the renowned sophist Polemon of Laodicea, and grandfather of a sophist named Hermocrates of Phocaea.
Epiphanius of Petra (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιφάνιος ὁ Πετραῖος), also called Epiphanius of Syria, was an Arab sophist and rhetorician at Athens in the first half of the fourth century AD. He is described as coming from Petra in Arabia by the Suda, a ninth-century Byzantine encyclopaedia, but as coming from Syria by Eunapius.
Hippias of Elis (/ ˈ h ɪ p i ə s /; Greek: Ἱππίας ὁ Ἠλεῖος; late 5th century BC) was a Greek sophist, and a contemporary of Socrates.With an assurance characteristic of the later sophists, he claimed to be regarded as an authority on all subjects, and lectured on poetry, grammar, history, politics, mathematics, and much else. [1]