PHILOSOPHER

Hippias

443 BC - 399 BC

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Hippias of Elis (; Greek: Ἱππίας ὁ Ἠλεῖος; late 5th century BC) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hippias is the 177th most popular philosopher (down from 160th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Greece (down from 84th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Greek Philosopher.

Hippias was a sophist from Elis, Greece. He is most famous for having written a work called "On the Sophists."

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Among philosophers, Hippias ranks 177 out of 1,267. Before him are Xun Kuang, Jakob Böhme, Thomas Reid, Mikhail Bakhtin, Posidonius, and Marquis de Condorcet. After him are Jean Buridan, Ram Mohan Roy, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, Cesare Beccaria, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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Among people born in 443 BC, Hippias ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 399 BC, Hippias ranks 2. Before him is Socrates. After him are Archelaus I of Macedon, Thrasymachus, and Amyrtaeus.

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    PHILOSOPHER

    443 BC - 399 BC

    HPI: 75.06

    Rank: 1

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hippias ranks 90 out of 1,024. Before him are Melissus of Samos (-470), Creon (null), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Irene Papas (1929), Mikis Theodorakis (1925), and Mardonius (-600). After him are Arion (-700), Archilochus (-680), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Hephaestion (-356), Philip III of Macedon (-359), and Alexander of Greece (1893).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Hippias ranks 17. Before him are Apollodorus of Athens (-180), Antisthenes (-445), Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), and Melissus of Samos (-470). After him are Diotima of Mantinea (-450), Prodicus (-460), Cratylus (-500), Pherecydes of Syros (-580), Euclid of Megara (-435), and Panaetius (-185).

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