Quiz: Protagoras

When was Protagoras born?

• About 490 BC, Abdera, Greece.
• About 372 BC, in the state of Zou, China.
• About 204, probably Lycopolis, Egypt.
• About 50, Hierapolis, in what is now Turkey, enslaved in Rome.

When did Protagoras die?

• About 420 BC.
• About 270 BC.
• About 262 BC, Athens.
• 43 BC, murdered on the orders of Mark Antony after being proscribed.

What is Protagoras known for?

• The measure doctrine: man is the measure of all things. Plato made him the target of the dialogue Theaetetus.
• The poem On Nature, which reasons that what is cannot come from what is not, so change and plurality are illusion.
• The claim that human nature is bad, that ritual reshapes it, and that Heaven is just nature running its course.
• The Meditations, twelve books of self examination, and the last of the Five Good Emperors.

Which school of thought was Protagoras part of?

• Sophist, a traveling teacher of rhetoric and argument.
• Academic skepticism, with Stoic leanings in ethics.
• Stoicism, in its Roman practical form.
• Eleatic school, the strict logic of being.

True or false: Greek Sophist from Abdera who taught rhetoric at Athens and charged fees for it.

• True
• False