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The Sophists: An Introduction First Edition Edition
Author(s): Patricia O'grady
- Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
- Publication Date: 17 Jun. 2008
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 0715636952
- ISBN-13: 9780715636954
Book Description
The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. Plato criticised the Sophists for promoting dangerous ideas which threatened the traditional structure of society. Were they versatile and multi-talented? This book offers a treatment of the subject by twenty leading scholars in the field.
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About the Author
Patricia F. O’Grady is Adjunct Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Flinders University of South Australia. She is the author of Thales of Miletus: The beginnings of western science and philosophy (2002) and editor of Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece (2005).
