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HIPPIAS OF ELIS: An entry from Gale's <i>Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> by G. Kerferd, 2006
Hippias of Elis: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Judson Knight, 2001
Sophiste: Antiphon, Critias, Gorgias, Protagoras, Prodicos de Céos, Polémon de Laodicée, Hippias D'élis, Zénobios, Timée le Sophiste, Xeniades (French Edition)
Ancient Eleans: Hippias, Pyrrho, Phaedo of Elis, Iamidai, Coroebus of Elis, Glaucus, Troilus of Elis, Xenias of Elis, Otus of Cyllene

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GRK201.Apology19d8-20c3
OCD hippias of elis, sophist, a younger contemporary of Protagoras (who lived c.481411), is vividly depicted in Plato s Hippias Major and Hippias Minor.
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Extractions: Plato, Apology 19d8-20c3 (English) [19d8] But in fact none of these things are true, and if you have heard from anyone that I undertake to teach [19e] people and that I make money by it, that is not true either. Although this also seems to me to be a fine thing, if one might be able to teach people, as Gorgias of Leontini and Prodicus of Ceos and Hippias of Elis are. For each of these men, gentlemen, is able to go into any one of the cities and persuade the young men, who can associate for nothing with whomsoever they wish among their own fellow citizens, [20a] to give up the association with those men and to associate with them and pay them money and be grateful besides. And there is also another wise man here, a Parian, who I learned was in town; for I happened to meet a man who has spent more on sophists than all the rest, Callias , the son of Hipponicus; so I asked him for he has two sons "Callias," said I, "if your two sons had happened to be two colts or two calves, we should be able to get and hire for them an overseer who would make them [20b] excellent in the kind of excellence proper to them; and he would be a horse-trainer or a husbandman; but now, since they are two human beings, whom have you in mind to get as overseer? Who has knowledge of that kind of excellence, that of a man and a citizen? For I think you have looked into the matter, because you have the sons. Is there anyone," said I, "or not?" "Certainly," said he. "Who," said I, "and where from, and what is his price for his teaching?"
Thales Of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
and include hippias of elis, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Alcmaeon, Hippo of Samos, and hippias of elis.
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Extractions: 1. The Writings of Thales Doubts have always existed about whether Thales wrote anything, but a number of ancient reports credit him with writings. Simplicius (Diels, Dox. p. 475) specifically attributed to Thales authorship of the so-called Nautical Star-guide. Diogenes Laertius raised doubts about authenticity, but wrote that 'according to others [Thales] wrote nothing but two treatises, one On the Solstice and one On the Equinox ' (D.L. I.23). Lobon of Argus asserted that the writings of Thales amounted to two hundred lines (D.L. I.34), and Plutarch associated Thales with opinions and accounts expressed in verse (Plutarch, De Pyth. or. 18. 402 E). Hesychius, recorded that '[Thales] wrote on celestial matters in epic verse, on the equinox, and much else' (DK, 11A2). Callimachus credited Thales with the sage advice that navigators should navigate by Ursa Minor (D.L. I.23), advice which may have been in writing. Diogenes mentions a poet, Choerilus, who declared that '[Thales] was the first to maintain the immortality of the soul' (D.L. I.24), and in
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: The Metaphysical Period - Page 1
hippias of elis. Hippias taught science among other things and appears in Plato sHippias Major, Hippias Minor, and Protagoras. d. Prodicus of Ceos
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Extractions: Adventures in Philosophy ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Select a Category... Ancient Philosophy Medieval Philosophy Modern Philosophy Recent Philosophy American Philosophy Islamic Philosophy Jewish Philosophy Political Philosophy Eastern Philosophy Academy Resources Glossary of Philosophical Terms Philosophy Search Engine Timeline of Philosophy A Timeline of American Philosophy ... Books about Religion in The Radical Academy Bookstore Shop Amazon Stores in the Radical Academy Bookstore The Cynic School ... Aristippus THE METAPHYSICAL PERIOD - 1 The second period of Greek philosophy occupies the entire fourth century before Christ. The problem which claims the interest of thinkers during this period is no longer the cosmological question, but man in his concreteness, namely, in his knowledge, his morality, his rights. The causes which determined the above passage were many, and the most important of these were the following:
Talk:Battle Of Marathon - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The link for Hippias goes to hippias of elis, a Sophist. The article there givesno hint that hippias of elis was also the tyrant of Athens.
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Extractions: Over US$155,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! This entry has won the West Dakota Prize for successfully employing the expression " legend states " in a complete sentence. The text of this article states, "Darius learned through Hippias that the Alcemaeonidae, a powerful Athenian family, were opposed to Miltiades and ready to help reinstate Hippias." This sounds doubtful. The Alcmaeonidae included some of the leading supporters for the democracy, didn't they? In that case they would hardly have wanted to reinstate Hippias, and Miltiades was never really in charge of anything. The text also states, "Hippias, tyrant of Athens, had been expelled in 510 BC by his people, with the assistance of Cleomenes, King of Sparta. He fled to the court of Darius to seek assistance." The link for Hippias goes to Hippias of Elis, a Sophist. The article there gives no hint that Hippias of Elis was also the "tyrant of Athens." I presume that these were two different people, so the link is incorrect. If they were in fact the same person, then the article about Hippias of Elis should be updated. Well, the Hippias problem is fixed...as for the rest, Hippias may have been lying to Darius to convince him to invade, but I don't really know that particular aspect of the story.
Hippias - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
hippias of elis, Greek Sophist, was born about the middle of the 5th century BCand was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and Socrates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias

Extractions: Over US$155,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Hippias can also refer to a son of Pisistratus and a tyrant of Athens. See Hippias (son of Pisistratus) Hippias of Elis Greek Sophist , was born about the middle of the 5th century BC and was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and Socrates He was a man of great versatility and won the respect of his fellow-citizens to such an extent that he was sent to various towns on important embassies. He was born in Athens. At Athens he made the acquaintance of Socrates and other leading thinkers. With an assurance characteristic of the later sophists, he claimed to be regarded as an authority on all subjects, and lectured, at all events with financial success, on poetry, grammar, history, politics, archaeology, mathematics and astronomy. He boasted that he was more popular than Protagoras , and was prepared at any moment to deliver an extempore address on any subject to the assembly at Olympia . Of his ability there is no question, but it is equally certain that he was superficial. His aim was not to give knowledge, but to provide his pupils with the weapons of argument, to make them fertile in discussion on all subjects alike. It is said that he boasted of wearing nothing that he had not made with his own hands.
Olympic History, Olympic Games
hippias of elis, at ca. 400 BC, compiled a list of Olympic victors, and accordingto him, the only event at the beginning was a stadiumlength foot race
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Extractions: OLYMPIC HISTORY "And we compel men to exercise their bodies not only for the games, so that they can win the prizes-for very few of them go to them-but to gain a greater good from it for the whole city, and for the men themselves" Lucian, Anacharsis, ca. AD 170 In a fertile valley of Ancient Greece, at a place called Olympia, the first Olympic Games were held at 776 BC. This games were held every four years, for a thousand years. The Games, like all Greek Games, were an intrinsic part of a religious festival held in honor of Zeus. Hippias of Elis, at ca. 400 BC, compiled a list of Olympic victors, and according to him, the only event at the beginning was a stadium -length foot race (stade). The distance of the race came from the legend, that Hercules, the god of Physical Strength, run the same distance in one breath. It has been speculated, that the games at 776 BC were not the first games conducted, but rather the first organized games. It is believed, that this lead from the peace agreement between the city-states Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic Games back to their King Iphitos. King Iphitos was told by the Delphic Oracle to plant an Olive Tree from which the victor' wreaths for the Olympic Games was cut. Another legend says, that the Games were founded by Heracles, son of Alcmene. In Ancient Greece it was thought that the first Games held in Olympia was organized by heroes and gods.
Elis - Columbia Encyclopedia® Article About Elis
There is Gorgias of Leontium, and Prodicus of Ceos, and hippias of elis, who gothe round of the cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave
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Western Philosophy
The Sophists were professional teachers of wisdom of the 5th century BCE includedProtagoras, hippias of elis and were the Encyclopedists of Antiquity.
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Extractions: Value of Knowledge Reference all The main branches of Philosophy are Logic Epistemology Ontology and Ethics capitalism In close connection with the practical struggle of the proletariat against bourgeois society, Marxism grew up out of Western philosophy, building on the achievements of Classical German Philosophy French Socialism and British Political Economy However, Marxism not only differs from Western Philosophy, it is its opposite Critique Although Western Philosophy traces its roots to the philosophy of ancient Greece, the philosophy of anceint Greece only reached Europe thanks to the Arabs. [See Hegel on Arabian Philosophy .] However, a long interval separates the bourgeois society, which began to emerge in Renaissance Europe of the 16th century, from the society of slave-owners of the 3rd to 6th century ancient Greek polis Introduction to the Dialectics of Nature The earliest Greek philosophers were the Milesian or Ionic School materialist philosophers , mathematicians, geographers and astronomers of the 6th century BCE including Thales, Anaxamander and Anaximenes. Heraclitus of Ephesus for whom all was composed of fire , also lived in this period.
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which was first compiled by hippias of elis in the late fifthcentury BCE and Hippias compiled the first Olympic victor list from a diverse array of
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Extractions: Search apaclassics.org Paul CHRISTESEN Whence 776? The Origin of the Date for the First Olympiad 776 BCE, ostensibly the date of the first celebration of the Olympic Games, is widely considered to be the first firm chronological point in ancient Greek history. This date is ultimately derived from the Olympic victor list, which was first compiled by Hippias of Elis in the late fifth-century BCE and was subsequently updated by Aristotle and Timaeus among others. The purpose of this paper is to argue that the date of 776 was calculated on the basis of generational reckoning using the Spartan king list and is at best only approximately accurate. This conclusion has significant ramifications since it means that many Olympiad dates found in the ancient sources, which are universally converted to Julian calendar dates based on the assumption that Olympiad 1 corresponded to 776, may be less precise than they appear. The key components of the argumentation I will present can be summarized as follows: Hippias compiled the first Olympic victor list from a diverse array of sources and did not draw on archival records.
Max NELSON Aristotle And The First Olympic Games
about Olympic victors, the fifth century BC sophist hippias of elis, and tofind the claim that this remained the standard date throughout antiquity.
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Extractions: Search apaclassics.org Max NELSON Aristotle and the First Olympic Games Recently, it has been convincingly argued by a number of scholars that there were many different competing systems of chronology in use in antiquity based on reckoning dates by Olympiads and that the date of 776 B.C. (in our terms) for the first Olympiad (in the continuous reckoning) was not universally recognized. However, it has still been quite usual to find the date of 776 B.C. attributed to the first known author to write about Olympic victors, the fifth century B.C. sophist Hippias of Elis, and to find the claim that this remained the standard date throughout antiquity. One dissenting voice was R. Pfeiffer, who claimed that Eratosthenes was the first to fix 776 B.C. as the first Olympic Games based on the first known winner, Coroebus of Elis ( History of Classical Scholarship FGrH 241F1) placed the first Olympic Games 297 years before Xerxes's invasion of Greece (which occurred in 480 B.C.), yielding a date of 776 B.C. when counting inclusively. However, I will argue that we can place the suggestion for this date further back, to Aristotle, and also that it was most likely Aristotle who first calculated it, though not based on the first winner of the Games but on the founders of the Olympics.
Historical Time-Line Of The Ancient Olympics - Vagablogging.net - Rolf Potts
(The date 776 BC was noted by the Greek chronicler hippias of elis; archaeologistssuggest the Games may have begun slightly earlier.
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Extractions: Rolf's new book! Main Those of you following the Athens Olympics of TV will see a lot of travel-writer Tony Perrottet in coming days, as he is slated to appear on NBC, CNN, ESPN and MSNBC to share insights from his book, The Naked Olympics . Those wishing to see him in person can catch him next Monday, August 16th, at the Half King (505 West 23rd St, corner 10th Ave) in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. The event starts at 7 p.m., and Tony will discuss his book, examine erotic ancient vase paintings and play rediscovered fragments of classical Greek music. The evening, he promises, will "allow New Yorkers to get into the festive pagan spirit of the Greeks, without all the agony of actually traveling to Athens." In keeping with the Olympics theme, today I'll share a time-line from the pages of Tony's book, which gives one the sense of how the ancient games developed over the yars: Historical Time-Line of the Ancient Olympics The story of ancient Greece and thus Western civilization is intimately bound with the story of the Olympics. The Games went through many ups and down in their twelve-hundred-year history, but were never once canceled. By contrast, the modern Olympics have been suspended due to war three times since their revival in 1916, 1940, and 1944.
LacusCurtius • Quintilian — Institutio Oratoria — Book III, C
Euathlus is said to have paid 10000 denarii, Link to the editor s note at thebottom of this page hippias of elis and Alcidama of Elae whom Plato Link
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Extractions: Institutio Oratoria In the second book the subject of inquiry was the nature and the end of rhetoric, and I proved to the best of my ability that it was an art, that it was useful, that it was a virtue and that its material was all and every subject that might come up for treatment. I shall now discuss its origin, its component parts, and the method to be adopted in handling and forming our conception of each. For most authors of text-books have stopped short of this, indeed Apollodorus confines himself solely to forensic oratory. I know that those who asked me to write this work were specially interested in that portion on which I am now entering, and which, owing to the necessity of examining a great diversity of opinions, at once forms by far the most difficult section of this work, and also, I fear, may be the least attractive to my readers, since it necessitates a dry exposition of rules.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sophists
hippias of elis, the Polymathist; and Prodicus of Ceos, the Moralist. Hippias was called the Polymathist because he laid claim to knowledge of many
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Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... S > Sophists A B C D ... Z A group of Greek teachers who flourished at the end of the fifth century B.C. They claimed to be purveyors of wisdom hence the name sophistai , which originally meant one who possesses wisdom but in reality undertook to show that all true certitude is unattainable, and that culture and preparation for the business of public life are to be acquired, not by profound thinking, but by discussion and debate. In accordance with this principle, they gathered around them the young men of Athens, and professed to prepare them for their career as citizens and as men by teaching them the art of public speaking and the theory and practice of argumentation. They did not pretend to teach how the truth is to be attained. They did not care whether it could be attained or not. They aimed to impart to their pupils the ability to make the better cause seem the worse, and the worse the better. 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. The Sophists may be said to be the first Greek sceptics. The materialism of the Atomists, the idealism of the Eleatics, and the doctrine of universal change which was a tenet of the School of Heraclitus all these tendencies resulted in a condition of unrest, out of which philosophy could not advance to a more satisfactory state until an enquiry was made into the problem of the value of knowledge. The Sophists did not undertake that enquiry a task reserved to
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Seven Liberal Arts
Of hippias of elis it is related that he boasted of having made his mantle, histunic, and his footgear (Cicero, De Oratore, iii, 32, 127).
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Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... A > The Seven Liberal Arts A B C D ... Z The expression artes liberales , chiefly used during the Middle Ages , does not mean arts as we understand the word at this present day, but those branches of knowledge which were taught in the schools of that time. They are called liberal (Lat. liber , free), because they serve the purpose of training the free man, in contrast with the artes illiberales , which are pursued for economic purposes; their aim is to prepare the student not for gaining a livelihood, but for the pursuit of science in the strict sense of the term, i.e. the combination of philosophy and theology known as scholasticism. They are seven in number and may be arranged in two groups, the first embracing grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, in other words, the sciences of language, of oratory, and of logic, better known as the artes sermocinales , or language studies; the second group comprises arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, i.e. the mathematico-physical disciplines, known as the artes reales , or physicae . The first group is considered to be the elementary group, whence these branches are also called
MediterraneanTours With Adventures Abroad
The first Olympiad (the fouryear interval between Festivals) was reckoned bythe 5th century BC scholar, hippias of elis, as beginning in 776 BC.
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Religion And Humanism, Why I Am Not A Christian
Some Sophists advertised themselves, as we hear with hippias of elis, who issupposed to have showed up at the Olympic Games saying that he could teach
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Extractions: The Sophists to Secular Humanism Greek philosophy began with the , the "natural philosophers" (in Latin, philosophi naturales ). Their focus on nature contrasts with the emphasis in Indian and Chinese philosophy (on salvation and morality) and suggests the later development of science in Western philosophy. But eventually there was a reaction in Greek philosophy. The reaction can be characterized as Greek Humanism . Humanism proper began in the Renaissance as a movement associated with Classical literature and Classical values. "Humanism" comes from the Latin word for man, homo , and the derived adjective, humanus , "human." Applying the term to Greek humanism thus involves a retrospective judgment, that Greek values were comparable, indeed were the origin, of the humanistic values of the Renaissance. "Humanism" now is often defined, or at least leaves the impression, as the exclusion of religion . We see this at The Humanist and the American Humanist Association . Someone merely familiar with the language of these sites would be surprised to learn that Renaissance humanists were Christians, or that the greatest Greek humanist, Socrates , regarded his own work as a mission for his patron god, Apollo at Delphi. These cases, which are historically central, show that humanism was originally a religious humanism. Some recent humanist organizations are clearly aware of this, for instance the
Apologetics Ministries [Apologetics Encyclopedia Of Bible Verses
Plato says that the Sophist hippias of elis was able to repeat fifty names afterhearing them only once. Pliny the Elder reports that Cyrus was able to
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Sophists (Wise men) A term applied by Plato to various teachers of whom hedisapproved Protagoras, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, and hippias of elis.
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Extractions: Pre-Socratic (Greek) Philosophers (from 6th c. BC): Physicalists Materialists (the world is made of matter: matter resolves into forces and energy). Opposed to mind/body dualism. All things are made of: earth, water Thales of Miletus, fl. 585 BC), air, or fire Heraclitus Atomism Demosthenes . Everything is made of tiny bits of indestructible and invisible matter bumping into each other and sticking together (atoms). Eleatics: what is real is single and motionless ( Parmenides of Elea, b. c. 515 BC). What is real is must be ungenerated, imperishable, indivisible, perfect, and motionless. It is called the ONE . This ONE contrasts with the relative and specious appearance of things, which arise through the opposition of two equally unreal forms: light and dark. Conflict bertween reason and experience (the latter illusory): (i.e., the changing perceptible world and the unchanging and eternal intelligible world):
BMCR-L: BMCR 2002.09.40 Mann, Athlet Und Polis Im Archaischen Und
victors since the list of Olympionikai compiled by hippias of elis ca. I discuss Elis exploitation of Olympia further in my A Polis as a Part of
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Extractions: Word count: 1885 words Greek athletics are an extremely fertile field of research, as is evidenced e.g. by a periodical such as Nikephoros and the steady flow of excellent studies such as the recent ones by Mark Golden (Sport and Society in Ancient Greece, Cambridge 1998) and Hugh M. Lee (The Program and Schedule of the Ancient Olympic Games, Hildesheim 2001), to mention just two examples. There has been, however, no major study of the relations between athletes and their home-poleis,[[1]] and so Mann's full-scale study of precisely this subject is more than welcome. And let the conclusion be stated in advance: M.'s study is very successful and highly interesting. It will appeal to both historians and classicists. The book is subdivided into eight chapters: (two introductory chapters on methodology; five case studies; and a concluding chapter) it contains a very useful 13-page appendix on the epinician poems of Simonides (arguing that the preserved fragments stem from genuine epinicians and do not contain satirical elements), and concludes with a rich bibliography and a general index; there is, unfortunately, no index of sources.
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The first record of the Olympic Games comes from hippias of elis in the fifthcentury BCE, though the first Olympic victory is dated to 776 BCE (this
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Extractions: The Greek athletic games, otherwise commonly recognized as the Panhellenic Games, were an integral part of Greek life. They combined religion, sport, and music into extravagant festivals involving peoples throughout Mediterranean. Not only did they attract thousands of participants and spectators to their venues, but they also promoted solidarity among the various Greek city-states. By the Classical period, their influence was felt throughout Greece. There were four main games: the Olympic Games, Pythian Games, Nemean Games, and Isthmian Games. The games at Olympia were the oldest and most famous of these. They all began quite humbly as religious ceremonies. While the games had a small religious aspect throughout their history, this role diminished as time progressed. Mythological evidence suggests that the athletic events originally served as entertainment for humans and gods and were loosely associated with sacrificial offerings. At first they were purely local events most likely spanning two or three days, consisting only of dancing, running, and wrestling The centrepiece of every Olympics is the track and field stadium. Stadium Australia has built the largest Olympic arena in history with 110,000 spectators able to see the opening and closing ceremonies, track and field program and the final of the men's soccer tournament. Under an agreement brokered by the Olympic Co-ordination Authority, the majority of the cost of the $A615 million stadium is being borne by the private sector with the NSW public having ultimate ownership of the venue. Stadium Australia has already hosted several world-class events including top-flight rugby league and union, American NFL and the FIFA All Stars.

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