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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.
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos
He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, to whom he was a rival and opponent.We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists (Περὶ Σοφιστῶν), directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches (a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates [citation ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Ancient Greek religion was polytheistic, [15] and a multiplicity of gods were venerated by the same groups and individuals. [16] The identity of a deity is demarcated primarily by their name, though this name can also be accompanied by an epithet (or surname), [ 17 ] which may refer to a specific function of the god, to an association with ...
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.