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Prodicus

460 BC - 380 BC

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Prodicus of Ceos (; Ancient Greek: Πρόδικος ὁ Κεῖος, Pródikos ho Keios; c. 465 BC – c. 395 BC) was a Greek philosopher, and part of the first generation of Sophists. He came to Athens as ambassador from Ceos, and became known as a speaker and a teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prodicus is the 239th most popular philosopher (down from 232nd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Greece (down from 127th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Greek Philosopher.

Prodicus was a sophist, and is most famous for his work in ethics. He believed that the individual is the measure of all things, and that the pursuit of virtue is the highest good.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Prodicus ranks 239 out of 1,267. Before him are Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Paul Feyerabend, Nikolai Berdyaev, Giorgio Agamben, and Michael Psellos. After him are Franz Brentano, Al-Jahiz, Gabriel Marcel, Milarepa, Josef Breuer, and George Herbert Mead.

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Among people born in 460 BC, Prodicus ranks 6. Before him are Hippocrates, Democritus, Thucydides, Diogenes of Apollonia, and Critias. After him is Verginia. Among people deceased in 380 BC, Prodicus ranks 2. Before him is Lysias. After him are Hakor, Nepherites II, Agesipolis I, and Philoxenus of Cythera.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Prodicus ranks 134 out of 1,024. Before him are Necho II (-625), Katerina Sakellaropoulou (1956), Pittacus of Mytilene (-650), Nestor (null), Matthew Kantakouzenos (1325), and Antiphon (-480). After him are Antipope Alexander V (1339), Agesilaus II (-444), Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882), Ioannis Metaxas (1871), Oruç Reis (1473), and Desmond Doss (1919).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Prodicus ranks 19. Before him are Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), Melissus of Samos (-470), Hippias (-443), and Diotima of Mantinea (-450). After him are Cratylus (-500), Pherecydes of Syros (-580), Euclid of Megara (-435), Panaetius (-185), Andronicus of Rhodes (-100), and Epimenides (-690).

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