# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prodicus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:42:13.243Z

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description: "A sophist who earned Socrates' friendship — rare among the philosophers-for-hire who wandered fifth-century Athens. Prodicus made language itself the subject, dissecting words with a precision that shaped how Greeks thought about meaning and choice."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Prodicus came from the island of Ceos around 465 BC, arriving in Athens as an ambassador and staying on as a teacher. Unlike most sophists, he won Plato's respect and appeared in the dialogues as Socrates' actual companion; one ancient writer even suggested Socrates borrowed his teaching methods. His curriculum centered on linguistics — the fine distinctions between words — and ethics, particularly a speech that survives in outline: Heracles at a crossroads, forced to choose between Virtue and Vice. He also read religion through a naturalist lens, stripping myth down to material explanations. He died around 395 BC, remembered as the sophist the philosophers didn't entirely despise.