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Headword:
Hippias
Adler number: iota,543
Translated headword: Hippias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Diopithes; of Elis. Sophist and philosopher. A pupil of Hegesidamus. He defined self-sufficiency as the end.[1] He wrote a great deal.
Greek Original:Hippias, Diopeithous, Êleios, sophistês kai philosophos, mathêtês Hêgêsidamou, hos telos hôrizeto tên autarkeian. egrapse polla.
Notes:
C5 BC. See generally Diels-Kranz 86;
Philostratus Lives of the Sophists 1.11; RE
Hippias(13); W.K.C. Guthrie,
The Sophists (Cambridge 1971) 280-5; OCD4
Hippias(2).
[1] Mentioned only here. Guthrie 283 compares the story in
Plato,
Hippias Minor 368B-D, that
Hippias once went to
Olympia wearing nothing that he had not made himself (clothes, ring, oil-flask, strigil), and notes that this is either support for or else (and more probably?) responsible for what the Suda claims.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 25 April 2001@11:32:48.
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