Sophist
Aeschines
Aeschines (c.390-c.315): Athenian politician and orator. Aeschines During the fourth century, the Greek towns were even more divided than in the fifth century,…
Athens, Temple of Zeus, Portrait of Polemo of Laodicea |
Corinth, Portrait of Herodes Atticus |
Dio Chrysostom
Dio Cocceianus of Prusa (c. 40 - after 112; also known as Chrysostom, "goldvoice"): Greek politician and philosopher, and -by some definitions- one of the first representatives of the Second Sophistic. …P. Annius Florus
Publius Annius Florus (c.70? - c.140?): Roman author, published a brief work on the history of the Roman empire during the reign of the emperor Hadrian (r.117-138). …Herodes Atticus
Herodes Atticus (c.102-177): Greek orator, one of the representatives of the Second Sophistic. Herodes Atticus Herodes Atticus was living in the past.…Philostratus
Lucius Flavius Philostratus (c.170-c.247): one of the leading sophists or orators of his day, spent some years at the Roman imperial court, author of a Lives of the Sophists and an intriguing Life of Apollonius of Tyana.Philostrati …
Smyrna, Portrait of a sophist |