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Protagoras of Abdera, fl. 5th century BC. Greek philosopher, a contemporary of Socrates, numbered with Gorgias and others among the Older Sophists. He was exiled from Athens in 415 BC for impiety. No works of his have survived; we know of him through the writings of others, and especially through Plato's dialogue Protagoras, a rather unflattering portrait of him and his disciples in conversation with Socrates.

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• Myth - Protagoras

  http://www.stenudd.com/greekphilosophers/protagoras.htm
  Review of Protagoras' thoughts on cosmology and the myths. By Swedish author and historian of Ideas Stefan Stenudd.

• Protagoras

  http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/protagoras.htm
  Short article summarizing this thinker's thought.

• Protagoras

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagoras
  Brief Wikipedia article on this thinker, noting his relativistic and agnostic teachings.

• Protagoras

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/protagor/
  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article by Carol Poster. Deals extensively with what we know about the life, doctrines and influence of this Sophist.

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