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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippias has received more than 138,534 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Hippias is the 151st most popular philosopher (up from 218th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Greece (up from 114th in 2019) and the 16th 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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  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hippias ranks 151 out of 1,081. Before him are Hans Kelsen, Duns Scotus, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Kabir, Jean Baudrillard, and Herbert Marcuse. After him are Adi Shankara, John Wycliffe, Louis Althusser, Ernst Cassirer, Christian Wolff, and Adam Weishaupt.

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Contemporaries

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 Thrasymachus, Archelaus I of Macedon, and Amyrtaeus.

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    Hippias

    443 BC - 399 BC

    HPI: 70.50

    Rank: 1

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hippias ranks 80 out of 936. Before him are Clement of Alexandria (150), Lysippos (-390), Ptolemy III Euergetes (-284), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Paul of Greece (1901), and Pope Dionysius (200). After him are Galla Placidia (388), Hephaestion (-356), Archilochus (-680), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882), and Antigonus I Monophthalmus (-382).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Hippias ranks 16. Before him are Leucippus (-500), Theophrastus (-371), Pyrrho (-365), Antisthenes (-445), Isocrates (-436), and Clement of Alexandria (150). After him are Melissus of Samos (-470), Diotima of Mantinea (-450), Chilon of Sparta (-600), Cratylus (-500), Epimenides (-690), and Apollodorus of Athens (-180).

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