ALCIDAMAS, of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician,
flourished in the 4th century B.C. He was the pupil and
successor of Gorgias and taught at
Athens at the same time
as Isocrates, whose rival and opponent he was. We possess
two declamations under his name: Peri Sofiston, directed
against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore
over written speeches (a recently discovered fragment of
another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date)