Sophist: References & Edit History

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Ancient sources and fragments are presented in Hermann Diels, The Older Sophists, a Complete Translation, ed. by Rosamund Kent Sprague (1972); and in Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1948), to be used together with Freeman’s The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, 2nd ed. (1949). The original Greek texts are in Hermann Diels and Walther Kranz (eds.), Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6th ed., vol. 2 (1952); and are edited with an Italian translation and commentary in Mario Untersteiner, Sofisti, 4 vol. (1949–62).

General discussions include Theodor Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, Eng. trans. by Laurie Magnus, vol. 1, bk. 3, chapters 5–7 (1901); Mario Untersteiner, The Sophists, Eng. trans. by Kathleen Freeman (1954); and W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 3, The Fifth-Century Enlightenment (1969). G.B. Kerferd, The Sophistic Movement (1981), is a study of the intellectual contributions made by the movement. The Second Sophistic period is treated in G.W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969).

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Add new Web site: St. Francis Xavier University - Sophist. Oct 04, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - The Sophists. Aug 09, 2024
Add new Web site: City University of New York - Queensborough Community College - Sophists. Mar 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Temple University Sites - Sophistic Method and Practice. Jan 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Romana - The Sophists. Nov 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Sophists. Sep 25, 2023
Add new Web site: K12 LibreTexts - The Sophists. Jun 09, 2023
Replaced photograph. Aug 20, 2014
Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Sophist. Sep 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Sophists (Ancient Greek). Sep 04, 2013
Revised various citations. Sep 29, 2010
Images added. Sep 29, 2010
Article revised and updated. Sep 29, 2010
Media added. Jan 19, 2009
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Sophists. Dec 17, 2008
Article revised. Oct 05, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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