PHILOSOPHER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prodicus has received more than 211,405 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Prodicus is the 232nd most popular philosopher (up from 253rd in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Greece (up from 154th 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 232 out of 1,267. Before him are Vyasa, Benjamin Constant, Al-Jahiz, Arcesilaus, Carneades, and Roger Garaudy. After him are Xenocrates, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Cleanthes, Giorgio Agamben, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and Chilon of Sparta.

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Contemporaries

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 127 out of 1,024. Before him are Theo Angelopoulos (1935), Parmenion (-400), Oruç Reis (1473), Critias (-460), Mardonius (-600), and Callicrates (-470). After him are Ioannis Metaxas (1871), Chilon of Sparta (-600), Apollodorus of Athens (-180), Perseus of Macedon (-212), Demetrius of Phalerum (-350), and Philip V of Macedon (-238).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Prodicus ranks 19. Before him are Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), Hippias (-443), Diotima of Mantinea (-450), Melissus of Samos (-470), and Cratylus (-500). After him are Chilon of Sparta (-600), Apollodorus of Athens (-180), Andronicus of Rhodes (-100), Speusippus (-407), Panaetius (-185), and Epimenides (-690).

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