Protagoras
c. 490 BCE–c. 420 BCE · Abdera
Foremost Sophist; 'man is the measure of all things'; pioneer of rhetoric and relativism of values.
“Of all things the measure is man: of those that are, that they are; of those that are not, that they are not.”
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AbderaThrace
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Abdera
A wealthy Greek colony on the Thracian coast that—despite a reputation for foolish citizens—produced two of antiquity's sharpest minds: the atomist Democritus and the sophist Protagoras.
In Abdera at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Protagoras’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Protagoras’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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