Philostratus and Eunapius on philosopher-sophists
Desire for sophistry
Proclus on the magic of rhetoric
Context for redefining pagan sophistry
Augustine's Christian rhetoric
Sophistry and civic humanism
Ficino's hermetic Plato
The sophistry of love
Challenges to Diotimean sophistry
The end of ancient wisdom
Bacon's allegorical ambivalences
Philosopher-kings in the seventeenth century
Parker's Baconian Plato
Rejecting the mysteries of Plato's allegories
A new Plato for a new age
Brucker's revision of Plato
A critique of sophistic (and Platonic) reason
Arguing and obeying
Universal history with a cosmopolitan intent
Hegel on sophistry.