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Dionysodorus (sophist)

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166:, Socrates examines a student of Dionysodorus who appears not to have learned basic elements of generalship. The implication seems to be either that Dionysodorus has shamelessly taken the student's payments without giving him his money's worth, or that Dionysodorus himself is ignorant of the very art of generalship he claims to teach. This is apparently in keeping with Plato's critique of Dionysodorus, although the biographical details are in conflict. 127:
who supported the democracy; if the general and sophist are one and the same, Dionysodorus may have become a naturalized Athenian citizen along with many other foreign residents before the
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preserves, and refutes, a specific argument of Euthydemus, which implied that "a man knows that there is a trireme in the
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features Dionysodorus and Euthydemus as prominent interlocutors. According to the dialogue, the brothers were born on the
339: 106:, the two taught fighting in armor and legal oration before developing an interest in sophistry. Xenophon in the 123:
speech, who potentially matches the sophist on several biographical details. This Dionysodorus was a general and
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further attributes the teaching of generalship to Dionysodorus specifically.
430: 87: 31: 23: 415: 41: 211: 410: 75: 37: 365: 152: 405: 143:, Plato depicts Dionysodorus and his brother employing a string of 99: 57: 395: 390: 370: 348: 156: 45: 34: 94:. After being exiled from Thurii, perhaps in 413, they came to 116: 83: 91: 79: 53: 30:, c. 430 – late 5th century or early 4th century BCE) was an 115:
Additionally, an individual named Dionysodorus appears in
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against Socrates and his student Clinias (III), son of
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because he knows each of the two things separately."
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