Meaning of sophoi | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“[…] since sophos means “wise,” sophia generally means “wisdom,” and sophoi denotes “wise men” of any kind and in any field […]. As a consequence, he regards Thales as having been the first of the sophoi and the profession as having begun with the seven sophoi of the oracle at Delphi […]. Given this understanding, the sophoi stood in close⟳ relation to religious ritual as well as to linguistic, musical, and dramatic performance, and philosophy itself becomes first of all an advanced form⟳ of poetic discourse still submerged in mythical images […]”

“[…] many who are now classified separately as poets, philosophers, sophists, or historians, but whom the Greeks would have⟳ grouped together under the term sophoi—“wise men.””

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