Philosopher · Classical antiquity · Greece

Protagoras

c. 490–c. 420 BC

Greek Sophist from Abdera who taught rhetoric at Athens and charged fees for it. He is remembered for the line that man is the measure of all things. He lived about 490 to 420 BC, and none of his books survive whole.

Facts

Born: About 490 BC, Abdera, Greece.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Protagoras
Died: About 420 BC.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Protagoras
School: Sophist, a traveling teacher of rhetoric and argument.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Protagoras
Known for: The measure doctrine: man is the measure of all things. Plato made him the target of the dialogue Theaetetus.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Protagoras

Images

Protagoras, painting by Jusepe de Ribera, 1637 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

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CountryGreece1830–PhilosopherPlatoc. 428–c. 348 BC

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