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Gorgias (Ancient Greek: Γοργίας, ca. 487-376 BC), Greek sophist, presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger.

His theory was subjected of critique by Plato in his work Gorgias.

Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Milesian school	Thales Anaximander Anaximenes

Pythagoreanism	Pythagoras Alcmaeon Hippasus Philolaus Archytas

Ephesian school	Heraclitus

Eleatic school	Xenophanes Parmenides Zeno of Elea Melissus

Pluralist school	Anaxagoras Archelaus Empedocles

Atomist school	Leucippus Democritus

Sophism	Protagoras Gorgias Prodicus Hippias

Others	Pherecydes Hippo Diogenes of Apollonia

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