Hippias
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Ancient Elis |
Greece | |
Died | Elis |
Greece | |
Elis | |
400 BC | |
Elis | |
Children | Aphareus |
Job | Mathematician |
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Diplomat | |
Orator | |
Educator | |
Full name | Hippias of Elis |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 649314 |
Hippias Life story
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.