Gorgias

[gawr-jee-uhs]

noun

1. c483–c375 b.c., Greek philosopher.

Gorgias

/ ˈɡɔːdʒɪəs /

noun

1. ?485–?380 _bc , Greek sophist and rhetorician, subject of a dialogue by Plato

Example Sentences

Plato’s Gorgias is a critique of rhetoric and sophistic oratory, where he makes the point that not only is it not a proper form of art, but the use of rhetoric and oratory can often be harmful and malicious.

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Gorgias Sanchez, a clarinetist in the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, was Izcaray’s roommate and close friend there in the mid-’90s.

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The three-part film is an adaptation of Plato’s “Gorgias,” performed in a house by two women, two iconic actresses of the modern French cinema, Aurore Clément and Bernadette Lafont.

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Socrates first leads Gorgias up the garden path, enticing him to agree that “rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other business, and that this is her crown and end.”

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Gorgias concedes, “No: the definition seems to me very fair, Socrates; for persuasion is the chief end of rhetoric.”

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