087 Rhetoric and the Sophists
The History of Ancient Greece
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Socrates and Hippious
The dialogue begins with Hippious having just delivered a speech on who Homer intended to portray as the better man. But Socrates could not follow his argument, so that now that they are separated from the crowd, he wants to further investigate. In it, Plato presents Hippious as a self-evowed expert on homeric criticism, who overreaches his expertise. And so Hippious is exactly the sort of man that Socrates complains about in Plato's apology. He develops expertise in one or more areas and then imagines that he knows everything.
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