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Socrates the Sophist
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Abstract
In his speech against Timarchus, delivered in 345, Aeschines asserts baldly that ‘You, Athenians, killed the sophist Socrates because he was seen as having educated Critias, one of the Thirty who overthrew the democracy’ (Tim. 173). So a little over fifty years after Socrates’ death, an orator can take the description of him as a sophist for granted, as something which his audience will accept as uncontroversial. Now it is commonplace that Plato regarded the perception of Socrates as a sophist as having contributed to the hostility which led to his being accused and his death, and that it was consequently central to his apologetic programme to distance Socrates from the sophists.
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Abstract
In his speech against Timarchus, delivered in 345, Aeschines asserts baldly that ‘You, Athenians, killed the sophist Socrates because he was seen as having educated Critias, one of the Thirty who overthrew the democracy’ (Tim.
173).
So a little over fifty years after Socrates’ death, an orator can take the description of him as a sophist for granted, as something which his audience will accept as uncontroversial.
Now it is commonplace that Plato regarded the perception of Socrates as a sophist as having contributed to the hostility which led to his being accused and his death, and that it was consequently central to his apologetic programme to distance Socrates from the sophists.
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