# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/polus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:18:47.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/polus"
name: "Polus"
slug: "polus"
description: "Polus was an ancient Greek philosophical figure best remembered for his depiction in the writing of Plato. He was a pupil of the famous orator Gorgias, and teacher of oratory from the city of Acragas, Sicily."
tagline: "5th-century BC Greek rhetorician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-460"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.011808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3los_(filozof)"
    title: "Pólos (filozof)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polos_d'Acragant"
    title: "Polos d'Acragant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polos_von_Akragas"
    title: "Polos von Akragas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polus"
    title: "Polus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polos"
    title: "Polos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polos_(rh%C3%A9teur)"
    title: "Polos (rhéteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_di_Agrigento"
    title: "Polo di Agrigento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4%EB%A4%BC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "폴뤼스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q372798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump