Protagoras
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Mr. Stuttard is impressed by Pericles’ association with intellectuals such as Protagoras, who claimed that “man is the measure of all things.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Indeed, one of the most prominent Sophists, Protagoras, is a main character in the dialogue that bears his name.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
You know, it goes back to Plato’s Protagoras.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019
At one particularly erudite confrontation, the movie director Michelangelo Antonioni is pitted against an unprepossessing old woman; still another requires the group’s mysterious leader, known as the Great Protagoras, to face an upstart challenger.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2017
According to one tradition, when the philosopher Protagoras was convicted on charges of heresy, his books were dumped in the city marketplace and burned.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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