-
dialogues Socrates appears as the
friend of
Prodicus. One
writer claims Socrates used his
method of instruction.
Prodicus made
linguistics and
ethics prominent...
- to use
sails and
interpret the winds.
Herodotus (fifth-century BCE) and
Prodicus made
claims of this kind. This
theory is
named euhemerism after mythologist...
-
Republic iii. and
parts of Laws) and
according to him it was the
sophist Prodicus who
first pointed out the
connection between gymnastics and health. Having...
- and the
Judgement of Hercules, is an
ancient Gr****
parable attributed to
Prodicus and
known from Xenophon. It
concerns the
young Heracles (also
known to...
-
regarded as the
first of
these professional sophists.
Others include Gorgias,
Prodicus, Hippias, Thrasymachus, Lycophron, Callicles, Antiphon, and Cratylus. A...
- his
nephew Bacchylides, both
ancient Gr****
lyric poets, of the
Sophist Prodicus, and of the
physician Erasistratus. The
inhabitants were
known for offering...
- ages. In
Protagoras Plato wrote that,
before a
gathering of Socrates,
Prodicus, and Hippias,
Protagoras stated that he was old
enough to be the father...
- (313a–314c).
Socrates says he
regards Prodicus as a man of
inspired genius (316a). He
expresses the same
admiration for
Prodicus in
another dialogue, the Theaetetus...
-
allegorical parable, "The
Choice of Heracles",
invented by the
sophist Prodicus (c. 400 BCE) and
reported in Xenophon's
Memorabilia 2.1.21–34, he was visited...
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anyone other than the initiated. For example, the
disciples of the
Gnostic Prodicus boasted that they
possessed the
secret (ἀπόκρυφα)
books of Zoroaster. The...
