Hippias

442 BC–398 BC

5th century BC Greek sophist

astronomer · mathematician · sophist

Born in Elis

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Hippias:

• Plato (428 BC–348 BC)
• Socrates (469 BC–398 BC)
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
• Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
• Democritus (460 BC–360 BC)
• Aristophanes (444 BC–384 BC)

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