# Hippias

> A Greek sophist who claimed mastery of every subject — poetry, grammar, history, politics, mathematics — and carried that claim with the supreme confidence Plato found insufferable.

*5th century BC Greek sophist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/hippias

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** -443
- **Died:** -399
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Hippias of Elis worked in the late 5th century BC, a contemporary of Socrates moving through the same intellectual circles of ancient Greece. He lectured widely, positioning himself as an authority on an uncommonly broad range: poetry, grammar, history, politics, mathematics, and more. That sweeping self-assurance became his signature and his liability. Most of what survives about him comes through Plato's dialogues, where he appears not as a thinker to admire but as a foil — vain, arrogant, the sophist as overreach. The portrait stuck.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Mathematics, #Astronomy, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313467)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210573)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Hippias)
- [Hipija](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipija)
- [Hípies d'Elis](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%ADpies_d'Elis)
- [Hippias z Elidy](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_z_Elidy)
- [Hippias (filosof)](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_(filosof))
- [Hippias von Elis](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_von_Elis)
- [Ιππίας ο Ηλείος](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CF%80%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%97%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%82)
- [Hipias de Élide](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipias_de_%C3%89lide)
- [Hippias](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias)
- [Hipias Elidekoa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipias_Elidekoa)
- [هیپیاس](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [Hippias Elisläinen](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_Elisl%C3%A4inen)
- [Hippias d'Élis](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_d'%C3%89lis)
- [Hipias de Élide](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipias_de_%C3%89lide)
- [היפיאס](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A1)
- [Hipija](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipija)
- [Éliszi Hippiasz](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liszi_Hippiasz)
- [Hippias](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias)
- [Hippías](https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipp%C3%ADas)
- [Ippia di Elide](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippia_di_Elide)
- [ヒッピアス (ソフィスト)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%83%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9_(%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88))
- [히피아스 (소피스트)](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9E%88%ED%94%BC%EC%95%84%EC%8A%A4_(%EC%86%8C%ED%94%BC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8))
- [Wikiquote](https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/H%C3%ADpias_de_%C3%89lis)
- [هيبياس الاثينى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89)
- [Хипий (тиран)](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9_(%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD))
- [Hípies (tirà)](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%ADpies_(tir%C3%A0))
- [Hippias (tyran)](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_(tyran))

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