Protágoras e a doxografia platônica sobre o mais eminente sofista

Abstract

Some dialogues of Plato can be understood, in the confrontation with other secondary sources, as doxographies of Socrates’ and other thinkers’ contemporary historical personalities of the 5th and 4th centuries BC This is the case of the sophist Protágoras, portrayed, in the homonymous dialogue, with common historical elements to the information present in Diógenes Laércio, for example. The present article is introduced with the conceptualization of doxography applied to the work of Plato, and then to look at the analysis of the dialogue dedicated to the sophist in confrontation with Socrates. The conclusion presents the result of this logomaking and, thus, how much Plato would be a reliable doxographic source or not to register, historically and intellectually, the trail of the most eminent and encyclopedic of the sophists.