Protagoras
c. 490 BC – 420 BC · 70 years · Athens · Europe
Philosophy: Sophists (founder)
One of the first to charge fees for teaching wisdom and rhetoric. He is known for the saying "Man is the measure of all things".
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Portrait: Salvator Rosa · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, 20 years younger
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 7 years older
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 5 years older
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 10 years younger
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 30 years younger
- Democritus — ancient Greek atomist philosopher, 30 years younger
Middle East
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 6 years younger
- Xerxes I — king of the Achaemenid Empire, 28 years older
- Heraclitus — Greek philosopher, 45 years older
Asia
The world in their lifetime
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — aged 0, Europe
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — aged 7, Asia
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — aged 10, Europe
- 480 BC Battle of Salamis — aged 10, Europe
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — aged 11, Asia
- 447 BC–432 BC Construction of the Parthenon — aged 43, Europe
- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 59, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 60, Europe