Gorgias

American  

[gawr-jee-uhs] / ˈgɔr dʒi əs /

noun

1. c483–c375 b.c., Greek philosopher.

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Gorgias British  

/ ˈɡɔːdʒɪəs /

noun

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

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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.

From New York Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From The New Yorker

What Corax began, Gorgias took out into the world.

From Literature

A native of Leontini, a Sicilian town just up the coast from Syracuse, Gorgias was born somewhere between 480 and 490 bc and lived to the ripe old age of 109.*

From Literature