Prodicus
Greek philosopher (c. 465 - c. 395 BC) · Academics · Lived 460 BC to 380 BC · aged 80
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Something wrong?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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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.
Academics born in the 460s BC 4
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