PHILOSOPHER

Gorgias

483 BC - 375 BC

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Gorgias ( GOR-jee-əs; Ancient Greek: Γοργίας; c. 483 BC – c. 375 BC) was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi in Sicily. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. W. K. C. Guthrie writes that "Like other Sophists, he was an itinerant that practiced in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at the great pan-Hellenic centers of Olympia and Delphi, and charged fees for his instruction and performances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gorgias has received more than 769,176 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Gorgias is the 64th most popular philosopher (down from 62nd in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Greece (down from 35th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Greek Philosopher.

Gorgias is most famous for his "On Non-Existence" speech, in which he argues that nothing exists.

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  • 76.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gorgias ranks 64 out of 1,267. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Epictetus, Herbert Spencer, Michel de Montaigne, Ibn Arabi, and Pliny the Elder. After him are Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, Antonio Gramsci, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 483 BC, Gorgias ranks 1. After him is Zisi. Among people deceased in 375 BC, Gorgias ranks 1. 

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    Gorgias

    PHILOSOPHER

    483 BC - 375 BC

    HPI: 76.86

    Rank: 1

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    Zisi

    PHILOSOPHER

    483 BC - 402 BC

    HPI: 58.14

    Rank: 2

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    Gorgias

    PHILOSOPHER

    483 BC - 375 BC

    HPI: 76.86

    Rank: 1

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Gorgias ranks 37 out of 1,024. Before him are Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Leonidas I (-540), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Nurbanu Sultan (1525), and Cleisthenes (-565). After him are Themistocles (-524), Solon (-638), Myron (-500), Alcibiades (-450), Draco (-650), and Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Gorgias ranks 9. Before him are Socrates (-470), Pythagoras (-570), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Plutarch (46), and Protagoras (-486). After him are Theophrastus (-371), Antisthenes (-445), Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), and Hippias (-443).

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