b. ca. 480 BC in Leontini in Sicily;

d. ca. 380 BC; Greek Sophist and teacher of oratory.

Works

Of his works, two epideictic speeches are preserved, an Encomium of Helen, and a Defence of Palamedes. The most important fragment is an excerpt from the Epitáphios, transmitted by Maximos Planudes in his commentary on Hermogenes. Numerous other fragments survive from other…