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
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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.
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Graeco-Roman world
- Epicharmus· 540 BCE–450 BCE
- Aeschylus· 525 BCE–456 BCE
- Themistocles· 524 BCE–459 BCE
- Pindar· 518 BCE–438 BCE
- Bacchylides· 518 BCE–451 BCE
- Parmenides· 515 BCE–445 BCE
- Diogenes of Apollonia· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Anaxagoras· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Sophocles· 496 BCE–406 BCE
- Empedocles· 495 BCE–435 BCE
- Zeno of Elea· 490 BCE–430 BCE
- Herodotus· 484 BCE–425 BCE
- Gorgias of Leontini· 483 BCE–376 BCE
- Hippias of Elis· 480 BCE–415 BCE
- Antiphon· 480 BCE–411 BCE
- Euripides· 480 BCE–406 BCE
- Melissus of Samos· 470 BCE–430 BCE
- Socrates· 470 BCE–399 BCE
- Philolaus of Croton· 470 BCE–385 BCE
- Prodicus· 465 BCE–395 BCE
- Critias· 460 BCE–403 BCE
- Thucydides· 460 BCE–400 BCE
- Hippocrates· 460 BCE–370 BCE
- Aristophanes· 446 BCE–386 BCE
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