PHILOSOPHER

Protagoras

486 BC - 420 BC

Protagoras

Protagoras (; Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Protagoras has received more than 624,954 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 58th most popular philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Protagoras ranks 56 out of 1,005. Before him are Nasreddin, Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Lucretius, Mikhail Bakunin, and Zeno of Elea. After him are Pliny the Elder, Peter Abelard, Ludwig Feuerbach, Anaximander, Edmund Husserl, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 486 BC, Protagoras ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 420 BC, Protagoras ranks 1. After him are Callicrates, Archidamus II, and Oenopides.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Protagoras ranks 28 out of 698. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Phidias (-490), Themistocles (-524), Xenophon (-430), Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478), and Demosthenes (-384). After him are Leonidas I (-540), Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), Myron (-500), Cleisthenes (-565), and Aristarchus of Samos (-311).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Protagoras ranks 8. Before him are Aristotle (-384), Socrates (-470), Pythagoras (-570), Epicurus (-341), Democritus (-460), and Plutarch (46). After him are Theophrastus (-371), Gorgias (-483), Antisthenes (-445), Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), and Leucippus (-500).

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