Sophistic rhetoric, the ancient Sophists’ highest value and the source of their power, may have found its modern voice in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The great classical scholar E.R. Dodds writes that Nietzsche was Plato’s “illegitimate and undesired offspring” (Plato, Gorgias. Oxford: 1959). While Plato likely intended that his dialogues support his own metaphysical views and undermine Sophist positions, these texts had the reverse effect on Nietzsche. Nietzsche rejected Plato’s views and embraced those of the Sophists, writing that “every advance in epistemological and moral knowledge has reinstated the Sophists” (Will to Power, 428). Though scholars have noted this connection between Nietzsche and the Sophists before, I shall argue that the Sophists’ influence on Nietzsche is greater than previously realized. While the complexity of Nietzsche’s philosophy goes beyond what we know of the Sophists, his most famous philosophical concepts clearly owe some of their inspiration to Sophist speeches in Plato. More importantly, the Sophists’ valuation of rhetoric may also inspire, if not supply, the rhetoric-based epistemology that Nietzschean scholar Douglas Thomas describes in Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (New York: 1999). Ultimately, Nietzsche can be seen as a modern voice of the Sophists, a champion of rhetoric and power in both substance and style.