Packet 6: Tossup 11

Richard McKirahan’s book on these people argues that each of them had their own “special interest,” contra George Kerferd, who wrote that they constituted a collective “Movement.” In a text, definitions of these people follow one for “fisherman” that starts from the idea of techne (10[1])(“TECK-nay”). One of these (10[1])people asks who are “the learners, the wise or the ignorant” in a text in which a pair of brothers draws a huge crowd. A series of diaereses (“dye-AIR-uh-seez”) defines these people as those who purify the soul through refutation and those who monetize eristic (10[1])disputation. (10[4])The Eleatic Stranger (10[2])and (10[1])Theaetetus (“thee-uh-TEE-tuss”) discuss (10[1])these people (10[2])in a complex dialogue (10[1])titled for them. (-5[1])One of these people claimed that “Man is the measure (10[4])of all (10[1])things.” For 10 points, what professionals, (10[1])including Euthydemus and Protagoras, were teachers of rhetoric named for the Greek word for wisdom? ■END■ (10[1])

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