Roman-era Sophists

Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian (c. 40 – c. 115)

Libanius (; ) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.

Greek sophist and Roman senator (101–177)

Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (; ; 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211) and died during that of Philip the Arab (244–249), probably in Tyre.

Alciphron () was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever.

Favorinus (c. 80 – c. 160 AD) was a Roman sophist and skeptic philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian and the Second Sophistic.

3rd century Greek sophist and author

Greek sophist (c. 90 – 144)

Zenobius () was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138).

2nd century Greek rhetorician

ancient Greek sophist

term for 1st to 3rd century Greek sophist writers

Greek sophist and rhetorician

Neoplatonist philosopher

Himerius (; c. 315 – c. 386) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician. 24 of his orations have reached us complete, and fragments of 12 others survive.

1st century AD Greek sophist and author

ancient Greek rhetor

Roman philosopher and diplomat

ancient Greek lexicographer

Adrianus of Tyre (Ancient Greek: , c. 113 – 193 AD), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Adrianus was the pupil of Herodes Atticus, and obtained the chair of philosophy at Athens during the lifetime of his master, which does not seem to have impaired their mutual regard; Herodes declared that the unfinished speeches of his scholar were "the fragments of a colossus," and Adrianus showed his gratitude by a funeral oration which he pronounced over the ashes of his master.

3rd-century Greek historian, orator, rhetorician and sophist

Greek sophist and rhetorician

ancient Greek rhetorician

goth-Roman rhetorician, philosopher and educator

3rd-century Greek rhetorician

son of Onasimus and son of the previous

Greek sophist and rhetorician during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius

ancient Greek rhetorician

Greek philosopher