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Hippias
5th century BC Greek sophist · Academics · Lived 443 BC to 399 BC · aged 44
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Something wrong?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.
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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.
Academics born in the 450s BC 2
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