The Truth of Antiphon\u27s \u27Truth\u27

My intention in this paper is to explore some of the implications of the fact that the fifth century sophistic thinker Antiphon entitled his main sophistic treatise, published in two books. Truth (Alêtheia). As in the case of Protagoras\u27 treatise of the same name, this title may be understood as an indication that Antiphon is responding to Parmenides\u27 Way o f Truth and is affirming his own view of the truth about the world, that physis is more real or truer than nomos, or in other words, statements are true if and only if they correspond to physis, but not to nomos. I have no quarrel with seeing Antiphon\u27s Truth as in some respect a response to Parmenides, but I think the relationship between the works of these thinkers is more complex, and these titles raise fundamental questions about what each author, and their contemporaries, understood by truth