Gorgias (c. 485 BCE - c. 380 BCE)

Gorgias (Greek: Γοργίας, Ancient Greek: [ɡorɡías]), 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.