# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bias-of-priene
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:50:46.487Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bias-of-priene"
name: "Bias of Priene"
slug: "bias-of-priene"
description: "A lawyer in sixth-century-BC Greece who never charged a fee and died mid-argument in court. One of the Seven Sages, remembered for a bleak view of human nature and a tripod he refused to keep."
tagline: "6th-century BC Greek sage"
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birthDate: "-600"
deathDate: "-530"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bias spent his life in Priene as a legal advocate, taking no payment from clients he believed had been wronged. He served as an envoy during a dispute with Samos, though the mediation failed. His philosophy was austere: most men are bad, misfortune must be borne, the gods deserve credit for good deeds, and wealth means nothing. Stories attached themselves to him—he turned down a tripod meant for the wisest man alive, ransomed kidnapped girls from Messenia, and once tricked the Lydian king Alyattes into abandoning a siege by making Priene look overstocked. He died arguing a case in old age, and even Heraclitus, who despised most figures from the past, praised him.