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Updated 2026-06-01
Ancient Greek sophist who claimed expertise in literally everything—poetry, math, politics, you name it. Plato couldn't resist roasting him for the arrogance, which is mostly how we know him today.
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Hippias of Elis was a Greek sophist, and a contemporary of Socrates. With an assurance characteristic of the later sophists, he claimed to be regarded as an authority on all subjects, and lectured on poetry, grammar, history, politics, mathematics, and much else. Most current knowledge of him is derived from Plato, who characterizes him as vain and arrogant.
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