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	Sophists - LoveToKnow 1911
		In this polymath we see at once the degradation of the sophistry of culture and the link which connects Protagoras and Prodicus with the eristics, who at a later period taught, not, like Hippias, all branches of learning, but a universally applicable method of disputation.
		The first four definitions represent the period of Protagoras, Prodicus, and their immediate successors, when the object sought was " virtue," " excellence," " culture," and the means to it was literature.
		Prodicus in his platitudes reflected the customary morality of the time.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sophists (4896 words)

	Prodicus
		Like Protagoras, he professed to train his pupils for domestic and civic affairs; but it would appear that, while Protagoras's chief instruments of education were rhetoric and style, Prodicus made ethics prominent in his curriculum.
		Though he discharged his civic duties in spite of a frail physique, he emphasized the sorrows of life; and yet he advocated no hopeless resignation, but rather the remedy of work, and took as his model Heracles, the embodiment of virile activity.
		By his immediate successors he was variously estimated: Plato satirizes him in the early dialogues; Aristophanes calls him "a babbling brook"; Aeschines[?] the Socratic condemns him as a sophist.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Prodicus.html (313 words)

	Prodicus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prodicus was a sophist and rhetorician from Iulis on the island of Ceos.
		It is reported that people flocked to hear Prodicus, although he had an unpleasant sounding voice.
		Prodicus was put to death by the Athenians on the charge of corrupting their youth.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/prodicus.htm (347 words)

	PLATO - PROTAGORAS 370 BC - FULL TEXT - IN FIVE WEBPAGE PARTS - PART THREE - Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) ...
		Prodicus, I said, Simonides is a countryman of yours, and you ought to come to his aid.
		Prodicus heard and approved; but Protagoras said: Your correction, Socrates, involves a greater error than is contained in the sentence which you are correcting.
		You are entirely mistaken, Prodicus, said Protagoras; and I know very well that Simonides in using the word "hard" meant what all of us mean, not evil, but that which is not easy-that which takes a great deal of trouble: of this I am positive.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /plato_protagoras03.htm (3074 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 541 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prodicus came frequently to Athens for the purpose of transacting business on behalf of his native city, and even attracted admiration in the senate as an orator (Plat.
		In the dialogues of Plato he is mentioned or introduced, not indeed without irony, though, as compared with the other sophists, with a certain degree of esteem.
		As Prodicus and others maintained with regard to themselves, that they stood equally on the confines of philosophy and politics (Euthyd.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2875.html (851 words)

	Sophists
		If we are to believe their opponents, Plato and Aristotle, they affected all kinds of refinement, in dress, speech, gesture, etc., and carried their love of argumentation to the point where all seriousness of purpose ceased and quibbling and sophistry began.
		Hippias was called the Polymathist because he laid claim to knowledge of many out-of-the-way subjects, such as archaeology, and used this knowledge for the sophistical purpose of dazzling and embarrassing his opponent in argument.
		Prodicus, called the Moralist because in his discourses, especially in that which he entitled "Hercules at the Cross-roads", he strove to inculcate moral lessons, although he did not attempt to reduce conduct to principles, but taught rather by proverb, epigram, and illustration.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/sophists.html (522 words)

	Prodicus of Ceos
		Prodicus often came to Athens, either for public missions or for private business.
		And, as explained at the end of the entry on Heracles elsewhere in these pages, Plato may have had Prodicus' apologue of Heracles in mind when choosing a Kalli-kles to defend the way of brute force and pleasure against Socrates' way of virtue and justice.
		Prodicus is also mentioned in the apocryphal dialogues Axiochus, Theages and Eryxias, playing an important part in the latest.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/char/prodicus.htm (819 words)

	PLATO - PROTAGORAS 380 BC - FULL TEXT - IN FIVE WEBPAGE PARTS PART FIVE - Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) - ...
		And here I would beg my friend Prodicus not to introduce his distinction of names, whether he is disposed to say pleasurable, delightful, joyful.
		Then, I said, these, Hippias and Prodicus, are our premisses; and I would beg Protagoras to explain to us how he can be right in what he said at first.
		I do not mean in what he said quite at first, for his first statement, as you may remember, was that whereas there were five parts of virtue none of them was like any other of them; each of them had a separate function.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /plato_protagoras05.htm (2931 words)

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		To all this Prodicus assents; but when Protagoras reclaims, Socrates slily withdraws Prodicus from the fray, under the pretence that his assent was only intended to test the wits of his adversary.
		Also, 'my eyes beheld Tantalus (Od.);' for Prodicus the Cean was at Athens: he had been lodged in a room which, in the days of Hipponicus, was a storehouse; but, as the house was full, Callias had cleared this out and made the room into a guest-chamber.
		I was very anxious to hear what Prodicus was saying, for he seems to me to be an all-wise and inspired man; but I was not able to get into the inner circle, and his fine deep voice made an echo in the room which rendered his words inaudible.
	www.brainfly.net /html/books/brn0012.htm (16941 words)

	Prodicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prodicus of Ceos (Greek: Πρόδικος Pródikos, born c.
		Yet Prodicus was no atheist, for the pantheist Zeno spoke highly of him.
		By his immediate successors he was variously estimated: Plato satirizes him in the early dialogues; Aristophanes calls him "a babbling brook"; Aeschines Socraticus condemns him as a sophist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prodicus (396 words)

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		Prodicus was Socrates' contemporary, although he could be a little younger than Socrates.
		Prodicus was known in holding a theory of the origin of religion.
		According to Prodicus, in the beginning human beings worshipped as gods the sun, moon, rivers, lakes, fruits, etc., the things which were considered to be the sources of their foods and life.
	www.csudh.edu /phenom_studies/greekphil/greek10.htm (3614 words)

	Protagoras [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Protagoras is known primarily for three claims (1) that man is the measure of all things (which is often interpreted as a sort of radical relativism) (2) that he could make the "worse (or weaker) argument appear the better (or stronger)" and (3) that one could not tell if the gods existed or not.
		Protagoras, Prodicus) and seemed to be a somewhat neutral term, although sometimes used with pejorative overtones by those who disapproved of the new ideas of the so-called "Sophistic Enlightenment".
		In the Protagoras, the Platonic dialogue named after the famous sophist which has both Protagoras and Prodicus as participants, Protagoras is shown interpreting a poem of Simonides, with special concern for the issue of the relationship between the writer's intent and the literal meanings of the words.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/protagor.htm (2213 words)

	Plato, Eryxias ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prodicus answered, as you did just now, that they were a good to good men and to those who knew in what way they should be employed, while to the bad and the ignorant they were an evil.
		Prodicus is desired to leave the gymnasium because he is disturbing the minds of youth.
		While I was speaking, Prodicus was preparing to retaliate 399upon his youthful assailant, intending to employ the argument of which you have just made use; for he was annoyed to have it supposed that he offered a vain prayer to the Gods.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0413 (5839 words)

	SparkNotes: Protagoras: Important Terms
		Hippias - Hippias, along with Protagoras and Prodicus, is one of the visiting Sophists whose presence in Athens causes Hippocrates's excitement at the beginning of this dialogue.
		Prodicus - Another Sophist, Prodicus was best known as a teacher of rhetoric, specializing in drawing fine distinctions between the meanings of words.
		In the Protagoras, the Sophists are Hippias, Prodicus, and Protagoras himself.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/protagoras/terms.html (1204 words)

	History of Philosophy 6
		The chief Sophists are Protagoras of Abdera, the individualist; Gorgias of Leontini, the nihilist; Hippias of Elis, the polymathist; and Prodicus of Ceos, the moralist.
		Such was the esteem in which he was held by Socrates that the latter often called himself his pupil, and did not hesitate to direct young men to him for instruction.
		Prodicus is best known by his moral discourses, in which he shows the excellence of virtue and the misery of a life given over to pleasure.
	www2.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hop06.htm (1714 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.04.12
		The most provocative section of Chapter III is perhaps the last part, in which O'Sullivan detects traces of Alcidamantine theory in the Certamen and argues that the actual contest between Hesiod and Homer reflects a host of opposing rhetorical strategies in which Alcidamas would have an obvious interest.
		Although much of the evidence, and many of the characters -- Euripides, Prodicus, Socrates, Agathon -- are familiar, O'Sullivan manages to weave the diverse strands together with appealing insight and coherence.
		It is no news to anyone, for example, that Euripides has ideological affinities with Socrates in Aristophanes, but O'Sullivan shows how the two are linked in Aristophanes also by the terms used to describe them and to characterize their respective rhetoric.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1993/04.04.12.html (2626 words)

	Intro to Modern Humanism, part 2: Ancient Precursors of Humanism
		Prodicus was also was a Sophist, and Sophists were the first to systematize education.
		According to the writings of Sextus, Euhemerus believed that the gods were "certain men of power" who were thought to be gods for that reason.
		Prodicus reduced God to that which benefits life.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/humanism/79214/1 (553 words)

	Prodicus - Greek Philosopher - Crystalinks
		Prodicus of Ceos (born c. 465 or 450 BC) was a Greek humanist of the first period of the Sophistic movement, known as the "precursor of Socrates." He was still living in 399 BC.
		Yet Prodicus was no atheist, for the pantheist Zeno spoke highly of him.Of his natural philosophy we know only the titles of his treatises On Nature and On the Nature of Man. His chief interest is that he sought to give precision to the use of words.
		Theramenes, Euripides and Isocrates are said to have been pupils or hearers of Prodicus. By his immediate successors he was variously estimated: Plato satirizes him in the early dialogues; Aristophanes calls him "a babbling brook"; Aeschines the Socratic condemns him as a sophist.
	www.crystalinks.com /prodicus.html (267 words)

	TX-BUTTERFLY archives -- December 2003 (#91)
		Dave’s butterfly really could be prodicus, evona or esta- there is no way to know which one it is since the specimen was not collected.
		On average, prodicus is bluer, and females have perhaps slightly larger forewing hyaline spots.
		However, prodicus DOES occur at sea level (in Sinaloa and Jalisco, at least), and higher-elevation Mexican species are known to make it to the lower Rio Grande Valley (witness Achlyodes pallida).
	listserv.uh.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0312&L=tx-butterfly&D=1&O=D&P=10494 (1257 words)

	Protagoras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Also, “my eyes beheld Tantalus” ; for Prodicus the Cean was at Athens : he had been lodged in a room which, in the days of Hipponicus, was a storehouse ; but, as the house was full, Callias had cleared this out and made the room into a guest-chamber.
		I was very anxious to hear what Prodicus was saying, for he seems to me to be an all-wise and inspired man ; but I was not able to get into the inner circle, and his fine deep voice made an echo in the room which rendered his words inaudible.
		Prodicus heard and approved ; but Protagoras said : Your correction, Socrates, involves a greater error than is contained in the sentence which you are correcting.
	www.ac-nice.fr /philo/textes/Plato-Works/04-Protagoras.htm (8631 words)

	Plato's Phaedrus - Plan of dialogue on rhetoric
		Then, Gorgias gives way to Prodicus, the logos player in the Protagoras, a logos whose description at the time was more reminiscent of the song of the cicadas than of the speech of an articulate speaker (see Protagoras, 315d and my comment in the introduction to the second tetralogy).
		In it, Prodicus declared that he was "the only one to have found the method that must apply to speeches : they must be neither long nor short, but of a right measure (metriôn)" (267b).
		If that could look like a joke to Prodicus himself, who is said by Socrates to have burst in laughter while stating it, it is not for Socrates.
	plato-dialogues.org /tetra_4/phaedrus/plan_sp3.htm (3118 words)

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		Also, "my eyes beheld Tantalus"; for Prodicus the Cean was at Athens: he had been lodged in a room which, in the days of Hipponicus, was a storehouse; but, as the house was full, Callias had cleared this out and made the room into a guest-chamber.
		I dare say that Prodicus and many others would say, as Hesiod says, On the one hand, hardly can a man become good, For the gods have made virtue the reward of toil, But on the other hand, when you have climbed the height, Then, to retain virtue, however difficult the acquisition, is easy.
		What did he mean, Prodicus, by the term "hard?" Evil, said Prodicus.
	graduate.gradsch.uga.edu /archive/Plato/Protagoras.txt (13980 words)

	Protagoras (dialogue) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition to Protagoras himself, there are Hippias of Elis, and Prodicus of Ceos.
		Two of the honored guests, Prodicus and Hippias, are men Socrates mentioned in the Apology as examples of intellectual pretentiousness.
		Socrates assumed that Prodicus would not want to miss the lecture, and so Callias and Alcibiades were sent to roust him out of his bed (317c-e).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Protagoras_(dialogue) (1440 words)

	Sophists
		Prodicus of Ceos was a disciple of Protagoras.
		Prodicus considered himself a Sophist but defined one as "midway between a philosopher and a statesman." At one time Socrates was one of his disciples but according to Socrates, he did not learn anything from Prodicus.
		Socrates once remarked that he sent young men to Prodicus who he did not think could be helped by his own teachings.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/ancient/athens/Sophists.htm (1277 words)

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