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discovered the beginnings of them advanced them in all only a little way, whereas the celebrities of to-day are the heirs (so to speak) of a long succession of men who have advanced them bit by bit, and so have developed them to their present form, Tisias coming next after the first founders, then
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as the key movers in the history of rhetoric. Quoting the W. A. Pickard-Cambridge text: "For it may be that in everything, as the saying is 'the first start is the main part'... This is in fact what has happened in regard to rhetorical speeches and to practically all the other arts: for those who
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after Tisias, and Theodorus next to him, while several people have made their several contributions to it: and therefore it is not to be wondered at that the art has attained considerable dimensions." The later
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for mentioning "confirmation and further confirmation," and calls Theodorus "that most excellent artist in words." Phaedrus responds in turn by calling Theodorus "worthy."
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translation of the passage gives us the perhaps more appropriate reading of "word-artificer" for Plato's witticism.
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and their associates..." Some commentators conclude from the passage that Theodorus is linked significantly with
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again in referencing Theodorus, with the translation giving the curious variation of "Daedalus of words." The
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describes him as excelling rather in the theory than the practice of his art.
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references Plato's usage in his history of Oratory in the third book of the
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provides a brief listing of his works, declaring him the author of
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Pickard-Cambridge, W. A. (2001) . Richard McKeon (ed.).
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The Basic Works of Aristotle, De Sophisticis Elenchis (
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index

Greek
Greek
sophist
orator
BCE
Byzantium
Plato
Phaedrus
Quintillian
Loeb
Diogenes Laërtius
Thrasymachus
Thrasymachus
Peripatetic
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Thrasymachus
Antiphon
Antiphon
Thrasymachus
Cicero
Suda
Thrasybulus
Andocides
Phaedrus 266e.
Institutio Oratoria 3.1.11.
Θ, 149
Ada Adler
ISBN
0-14-043689-8
ISBN

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