Socrates was identified with this group of
intellectuals and teachers who serviced the desire on the part of the citizen body to learn and
practice public discourse
some names Ð Gorgias,
Protogoras, Euthydemos
developing an intellectual
discourse pertinent to these urban and political spaces
Plato despised them (seeing Socrates as pursuing not
the skill of discourse per se but its object Ð questions of right and wrong)