Gorgias (/ˈɡɔrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας Ancient Greek: [ɡorɡías]; c. 485 – c. 380 BC) called the Nihilist was a Greek sophist Italiote pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician who was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles although he would only have been a few years younger.
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