PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- Gorgias was known for his great use of figures.
- His presentations were highly emotive.
- He was also famous for his antithetic style.
- Isocrates, and possibly Thucydides, were his pupils.
- His claim, "Being is unrecognizable unless it succeeds in seeming, and seeming is weak unless it succeeds in being," suggests Plato's account of Gorgias and other sophists is very distorted.