Using the "Protagoras" by Plato we may suppose that Hippias of Elis was a contemporary of Prodicus although there are no more data to substantiate this. Just know, mainly by hand from Plato, who toured many cities making speeches and getting with it fame and money. I used to introduce into their discussions issues of geometry, astronomy, music and rhythm. Also discussed painting and sculpture. All this he did in different places. In Sparta, however, investigated the families of the cities, settlements, deeds done, since the Lacedaemonians, for their will to rule, fond of this kind of study.
Most characteristic of his personality was his encyclopedic knowledge, which enabled him to boast of mastering all the arts and sciences of his time. This capability was the result of his encyclopedic memory ability that he developed through mnemonics procedures also sought to teach his disciples. As evidence of this unusual memorial holding capacity Philostratus tells us about this issue: "the sophist Hippias of Elis, had a memory so powerful, even and old enough to hear once in fifty names to remember the order in which had heard (Philostratus in Life of sophists "I, 11.1 ff). Linked to this encyclopaedic knowledge formed a proud temper and tart, just as in Hippias Plato tells us less 363c: "[...] Since I started taking part in competitions at Olympia, so far, I have not met anyone better I in any way.
His teaching included courses on genealogy, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, mythology, history, painting, prosody, sculpture, verse and music. He composed dithyrambs, prose texts of all kinds and tragedy. Despite the breadth of the disciplines taught had a systematic and thorough study of each. He also wrote a list of Olympic victors from the archives and inscriptions at Olympia was the first attempt to create a systematic timeline. Possibly Thucydides served Hippias data for the chronology of his "History of the Peloponnesian War." In any case the list of Hippias also served as the basis for later wrote Eusebius and possibly served as a model for many other similar, as Hellanicus list of the priestesses of Hera at Argos or Aristotle himself the conqueror of Delphi. His is also a dialogue Trojan, whose theme is: in Troy, and conquered, Nestor admonishes Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, on the action to be taken to manifest as a good man. Carried out in defense of the interests of Elis, more than any other Greek embassies, and in any city, left the fame of his evil plight public speeches and debates. By contrast, raised lots of money and was enrolled in the tribes of small and large cities.
Stobaeus, Florilegium III 38.32. The writing of Plutarch, On the Libel [XXIII 3 Bernardakis VII, p. 128, 8-13] gives some comments on his ethical thought: "Hippias says there are two kinds of jealousy: fair, when envy the honors they receive the bad, the unjust: when envy the good. Envious suffer twice as much as other people, because not only bear the weight of its own problems, as the wicked, but also the goods of others. ".
Although there are signs that developed a thought is hard to rebuild itself through the texts which remain. It appears that he held a theory of things that classes can be dependent on a single, continuous and extensive, without interruption, throughout the physical world. It also seems to have been the initiator of what today would be called the social sciences and suggests that perhaps Hippias Pfeiffer is among theorists as Damon, who led a revolution that ended more independent music to the music of the word, which, earlier, was no more than an underscore. Their ideology is reflected by Xenophon sophist in "Memoirs of Socrates 4.5 ss IV, where Hippias and Socrates chatting about what is right. The first gives his opinion: "How can you, Socrates, to consider the laws and obey them, a serious matter, when often the same people who advocate the change, them as inappropriate?". Hippias gives new guidance to the classic debate physis / nomos applying the analysis to the origin and legitimacy of the laws.
Its influence on the mathematics of the time was crucial. Proclus in his Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements "presents the history of mathematics Eudemus of Rhodes, which, in turn, depended for the period prior to Plato, Hippias. He was known for the discovery of cuadratiz, which was a geometric procedure for the trisection of an angle, as well as for his work on squaring the circle.
Most characteristic of his personality was his encyclopedic knowledge, which enabled him to boast of mastering all the arts and sciences of his time. This capability was the result of his encyclopedic memory ability that he developed through mnemonics procedures also sought to teach his disciples. As evidence of this unusual memorial holding capacity Philostratus tells us about this issue: "the sophist Hippias of Elis, had a memory so powerful, even and old enough to hear once in fifty names to remember the order in which had heard (Philostratus in Life of sophists "I, 11.1 ff). Linked to this encyclopaedic knowledge formed a proud temper and tart, just as in Hippias Plato tells us less 363c: "[...] Since I started taking part in competitions at Olympia, so far, I have not met anyone better I in any way.
His teaching included courses on genealogy, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, mythology, history, painting, prosody, sculpture, verse and music. He composed dithyrambs, prose texts of all kinds and tragedy. Despite the breadth of the disciplines taught had a systematic and thorough study of each. He also wrote a list of Olympic victors from the archives and inscriptions at Olympia was the first attempt to create a systematic timeline. Possibly Thucydides served Hippias data for the chronology of his "History of the Peloponnesian War." In any case the list of Hippias also served as the basis for later wrote Eusebius and possibly served as a model for many other similar, as Hellanicus list of the priestesses of Hera at Argos or Aristotle himself the conqueror of Delphi. His is also a dialogue Trojan, whose theme is: in Troy, and conquered, Nestor admonishes Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, on the action to be taken to manifest as a good man. Carried out in defense of the interests of Elis, more than any other Greek embassies, and in any city, left the fame of his evil plight public speeches and debates. By contrast, raised lots of money and was enrolled in the tribes of small and large cities.
Stobaeus, Florilegium III 38.32. The writing of Plutarch, On the Libel [XXIII 3 Bernardakis VII, p. 128, 8-13] gives some comments on his ethical thought: "Hippias says there are two kinds of jealousy: fair, when envy the honors they receive the bad, the unjust: when envy the good. Envious suffer twice as much as other people, because not only bear the weight of its own problems, as the wicked, but also the goods of others. ".
Although there are signs that developed a thought is hard to rebuild itself through the texts which remain. It appears that he held a theory of things that classes can be dependent on a single, continuous and extensive, without interruption, throughout the physical world. It also seems to have been the initiator of what today would be called the social sciences and suggests that perhaps Hippias Pfeiffer is among theorists as Damon, who led a revolution that ended more independent music to the music of the word, which, earlier, was no more than an underscore. Their ideology is reflected by Xenophon sophist in "Memoirs of Socrates 4.5 ss IV, where Hippias and Socrates chatting about what is right. The first gives his opinion: "How can you, Socrates, to consider the laws and obey them, a serious matter, when often the same people who advocate the change, them as inappropriate?". Hippias gives new guidance to the classic debate physis / nomos applying the analysis to the origin and legitimacy of the laws.
Its influence on the mathematics of the time was crucial. Proclus in his Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements "presents the history of mathematics Eudemus of Rhodes, which, in turn, depended for the period prior to Plato, Hippias. He was known for the discovery of cuadratiz, which was a geometric procedure for the trisection of an angle, as well as for his work on squaring the circle.
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