# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hippias
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:56.112Z

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deathDate: "-399"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.