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Dissoi logoi

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Dissoi logoi (Greek δισσοὶ λόγοι "contrasting arguments") is a rhetorical exercise of unknown authorship. Based on comments in the text it appears to have been written not long after the Peloponnesian War.

Quotes

  • They introduce poets as witnesses, but these compose for the sake of pleasure not for the sake of truth.
    • Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX, edited by Laks and Most (Loeb Classical Library: 2016), p. 181
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