he Sophists : Their Burial , a Tainted Perspective , and

that rhetoric had in ancient Greece, and on unique ways in which the Sophists perv
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•Richard Enos

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•Everett Lee Hunt

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of their rivals, mainly Plato and Aristotle, that have been sort of immortalized

ns, cultural success, ect. have been prescribed by much of the same circulating

the figures that suppressed sophistic relevance and the unavailability of in

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alysis, combined with the obscurity of their work, has opened for twentieth-century

, an outcome of the passionate condemnation they provoked from two of their conte

the histories about them have been written” (68).

- Susan Jarret. “The First Sophists and the Uses of History”. Rhetoric Rev
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orn heaped on their work by those who came after, especially Plato. For many of th

e fragments and from what was said about the Sophists by the Greek thinkers who c

-Patricia Bizzel & Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Traditi

c instruction in the arts of speaking and writing in the West" and that we need t

-John Scenters-Zapico. “The Case for the Sophists”. Rhetoric Review

g Neglect: Discovering the Uncovered & Detracting from Exting

mulated by the judgments set by Plato and Aristotle in their dialogues and wor

nd image of the sophists and thus their use of rhetoric for means other than

h to be productive arguers of the counsel and state has been attacked numerous
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etoric" (1354al3), who according to Aristotle are concerned only with manipulating

- Susan Jarret. “The First Sophists and the Uses of History”. Rhetoric Rev

e philoso- phy, the doctrine of truth, by a truthful rendition of the sophists' use

-John Scenters-Zapico. “The Case for the Sophists”. Rhetoric Review

 Famous Sophists: Origins and Convergence

iterranean Islands, yet converged at Athens where the state of democracy and polit
 Maps of Ancient
Greece

gions of ancient Greece and the relationship of the islands, Asia Minor, and city
 How Sophists Pervaded Greece and the Polis

raised to take part in Greek civic duty ready to learn the tools to be active in

ration of schooling with Greek cultural athletic training. While many Sophists ro

taneously taught philosophy and rhetoric.

o received athletic training. This combination of training created a sort of hybri

 How Sophists Pervaded the Polis: Tying
Rhetoric to Athleticism

opment of rhetoric as a bodily art: an art learned, practiced, and performed by and

s of the body and mind, ‘not separating sharply the two kinds of education, but usi

om similar pedagogi- cal strategies wherein the respective instructors impart to

-Deborah Hawhee. “Bodily Pedagogies: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Sophists' Three Rs” Col
 How Sophists Pervaded Greece and the Polis

e transition from an oral to a written and literate culture was a long one.

rate, the Greeks were very skeptical of the written word (much the opposite of our

of it. The Sophists knew and held firm to the needs and concerns of the people who

oration, they not only were able to continue to effectively connect with people b
 How Sophists Pervaded Greece and the Polis

hat was valid in Athens. "Oral culture," Saussure tells us, "is dependent upon conve

in turn was based on an unfamiliarity with it. As such, it was much more than an

-John Scenters-Zapico. “The Case for the Sophists”. Rhetoric Review

 Their Rhetorical Stance of Value: Setting Themselves Apart.

e culminating in one, and the sophists' relativistic, democratic philosophy of the

amine and reexamine arguments. It is not dependent upon the antiquated, and often-c

-John Scenters-Zapico. “The Case for the Sophists”. Rhetoric Review

 Concluding Thoughts on the Continuation of Sophist Relevanc

longer or prosperous than we still know) because they were figures that both fed

both entertaining and marketable for the polis’s citizens.

c both by contrast in their views from their opponents but also in their separate
 How Sophists Pervaded Greece and the Polis

an important sense in which all significant public discourse of the fifth century

-John Scenters-Zapico. “The Case for the Sophists”. Rhetoric Revie

ostered the spread of literacy and of a standard written form, or grapholect, of t

-Patricia Bizzel & Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition

 Implications of How the Sophists Worked

despite the very fragmentary nature of their surviving work, they have come to be

- Susan Jarret. “The First Sophists and the Uses of History”. Rhetoric Rev

e; and that fierce play of ideas and emotions of which words were media" (156). Thi

-John Scenters-Zapico. “The Case for the Sophists”. Rhetoric Review

 Concluding Thoughts on the Continuation of Sophist Relevanc

ted histories.

lato, Aristotle, and their successors, then it goes without saying that our histor

realize how to highlight the shortcomings of the priori, underline the lack of in
 Concluding thoughts on Continuation of
Sophisitic Relevance

extent the history of the sophists for the contemporary field of rhetoric and co

udies in the current revival and threatens a continuing historical exclusion of t

ge self-consciousness about how we are using our history, or, to put it in more me

- Susan Jarret. “The First Sophists and the Uses of History”. Rhetoric R