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HIPPIAS OF ELIS: An entry from Gale's <i>Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> by G. Kerferd, 2006

Hippias of Elis: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Judson Knight, 2001

Sophiste: Antiphon, Critias, Gorgias, Protagoras, Prodicos de Céos, Polémon de Laodicée, Hippias D'élis, Zénobios, Timée le Sophiste, Xeniades (French Edition)

Ancient Eleans: Hippias, Pyrrho, Phaedo of Elis, Iamidai, Coroebus of Elis, Glaucus, Troilus of Elis, Xenias of Elis, Otus of Cyllene

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Kelci~olympics
The only games played at the first Olympic Games was the stadion foot races, accordingto hippias of elis, who put together a list of all the Olympic victors
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Extractions: The Ancient Olympic Games The Ancient Olympic Games lasted for twelve centuries. King Iphitos, in Greece, attempted to establish some sort of Olympic Games in 824 B.C. through the games "dear to the Gods" as a "sacred truce" in ancient Greece. Many of the city-states were at war in this time. Finally, in 776 B.C., the games were set up and continued every four years, until A.D. 394. That was the end of the Ancient Olympic Games, until they were brought back, the Modern Olympic Games, in 1896. The Ancient Olympic Games only took place in the hottest monthes of the year, and lasted about five years, and were always held in Olympia, Greece. They did not move to a different country, or even city, every year, like the games we have now do. In this time, there was no Winter Games at all. The Games were originally created as a sacred truce, so the warring city-states of the country would lay down their arms during the games, allowing the athletes to compete in peace. They were also religious festivals, to honor Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses. In these games there was not nearly as many sports played as in the Modern Games. The only sports played were foot races, boxing, wrestling, pankration (a mix of boxing and wrestling), the pentathalon (discus, javelin, long jump, running, wrestling), and equestrian events (chariot races, and riding). The only games played at the first Olympic Games was the stadion foot races, according to Hippias of Elis, who put together a list of all the Olympic victors about 400 B.C.
HIPPOCRAS
hippias of elis, Greek sophist, was born about the middle of the 5th centurync. and was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and Socrates.
http://24.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HI/HIPPOCRAS.htm

Extractions: two sides against a vertical gable. Sometimes a compromise is made between the two, half the roof being hipped and half resting on the vertical wall; this gives much more room inside the roof, and externally a most picturesque effect, which is one of the great attractions of domestic architecture in the south of England, and is rarely found in other countries. In 18271838 a collected edition of Hippels works in 14 vols., was issued at Berlin. Uber die Ehe has been edited by E. Brenning (Leipzig, 1872), and the Lebenslaufe nach auf stei gender Linie has in a modernized edition by A. von Ottingen (1878), gone through several editions. See J. Czerny, Sterne, Ilippel und Jean Paul (Berlin, 1904). represent the attitude of serious thinkers to the growing influence of the professional Sophists. There is, however, no question that Hippias did a real service to Greek literature by insisting on the meaning of words, the value of rhythm and literary style. He is credited with an excellent work on Homer, collections of Greek and foreign literature, and archaeological treatises, but nothing remains except the barest notes. He forms the connecting link between the first great sophists, Protagoras and Prodicus, and the innumerable eristics who brought their name into disrepute. For the general atmosphere in which Hippias moved see SoPffIsTs; also histories of Philosophy (e.g. Windelband, Eng. trans. by Tufts, pt. I, c. 2, §f 7 and 8).
The Olympic History Page
The Games, like all Greek Games, were an intrinsic part of a religiousfestival held in honor of Zeus. hippias of elis, at ca. 400
http://www.inglewoodcarecentre.com/history/olympic.htm

Extractions: E-mail This Page history index Olympic History Page 2 Winter Olympic History ... Athens Summer Olympic 2004 OLYMPIC HISTORY "And we compel men to exercise their bodies not only for the games, so that they can win the prizes-for very few of them go to them-but to gain a greater good from it for the whole city, and for the men themselves" Lucian, Anacharsis, ca. AD 170 In a fertile valley of Ancient Greece, at a place called Olympia, the first Olympic Games were held at 776 BC. This games were held every four years, for a thousand years. The Games, like all Greek Games, were an intrinsic part of a religious festival held in honor of Zeus. Hippias of Elis, at ca. 400 BC, compiled a list of Olympic victors, and according to him, the only event at the beginning was a stadium -length foot race (stade). The distance of the race came from the legend, that Hercules, the god of Physical Strength, run the same distance in one breath. It has been speculated, that the games at 776 BC were not the first games conducted, but rather the first organized games. It is believed, that this lead from the peace agreement between the city-states Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic Games back to their King Iphitos. King Iphitos was told by the Delphic Oracle to plant an Olive Tree from which the victor' wreaths for the Olympic Games was cut. Another legend says, that the Games were founded by Heracles, son of Alcmene.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sophists
(Catholic Encyclopedia)Category Society Religion and Spirituality S The principal Sophists were Protagoras of Abdera, called the Individualist; Gorgiasof Leontini, surnamed the Nihilist; hippias of elis, the Polymathist; and
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Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... S > Sophists A B C D ... Z A group of Greek teachers who flourished at the end of the fifth century B.C. They claimed to be purveyors of wisdom hence the name sophistai , which originally meant one who possesses wisdom but in reality undertook to show that all true certitude is unattainable, and that culture and preparation for the business of public life are to be acquired, not by profound thinking, but by discussion and debate. In accordance with this principle, they gathered around them the young men of Athens, and professed to prepare them for their career as citizens and as men by teaching them the art of public speaking and the theory and practice of argumentation. They did not pretend to teach how the truth is to be attained. They did not care whether it could be attained or not. They aimed to impart to their pupils the ability to make the better cause seem the worse, and the worse the better. If we are to believe their opponents, Plato and Aristotle , they affected all kinds of refinement, in dress, speech, gesture, etc., and carried their love of argumentation to the point where all seriousness of purpose ceased and quibbling and sophistry began. The Sophists may be said to be the first Greek sceptics. The materialism of the Atomists, the idealism of the Eleatics, and the doctrine of universal change which was a tenet of the School of Heraclitus all these tendencies resulted in a condition of unrest, out of which philosophy could not advance to a more satisfactory state until an enquiry was made into the problem of the value of knowledge. The Sophists did not undertake that enquiry a task reserved to
TR-00-20.html
That is a subset of the curve known since antiquity as the Quadratrix of Hippias.The first curve ever named after its discoverer, hippias of elis (ca.
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Extractions: University of Western Ontario Introduction This worksheet explores some recent results related to the function W(x), which satisfies restart; W(x)*exp(W(x)) = x; In fact, Maple knows this function rather well, and names it LambertW, following the paper ``On the Lambert W function'', by Corless, Gonnet, Hare, Jeffrey, and Knuth (Adv. Comp. Math. 1996); to save typing its real name all the time, we use alias( W = LambertW ); This means now that any instance of W that occurs in this worksheet will use the short notation W instead of the long notation LambertW. solve( y*exp(y) - z, y ); _EnvAllSolutions := true; solve( y*exp(y) - z, y ); The usual reaction to this answer is another question: what on earth is W(x)? In this worksheet we will see some parts of the answer, and some of the history and applications of this function. The goal of this exposition is that, at the end, you feel comfortable with W(x) and are happy with it as an answer. Of course, to get to that point you will have to do some work, but luckily it is all rather pleasant. History The history of the function goes back to J. H. Lambert (1728-1777). This worksheet is not the right medium to discuss the life of Lambert, but a short note is appropriate.
Part 10: Epicurean Library
naturally they enjoy you and your vast store of knowledge. (Plato, Hippias Major285b286b = T2 Waterfield, The First Philosophers , hippias of elis).
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dhutchin/o5.htm

Extractions: back to PHL200Y home page back to course outline Topic #A12 Antiphon, Prodicus, and Hippias 5 October 2001 Scribes: David Dagenais and Lukasz Felczak These minutes were spoken on 10 October. Theaetetus Prodicus shared many of the characteristics attributed to Protagoras. He also charged money for his teaching, with the same practical focus of convincing speech with the power of words. His main interests were the language arts. Poets, philosophers, intellectuals, and luminaries served as ambassadors and were sent to the councils of neighbouring cities. Prodicus was sent from Ceos to Athens. Thus, it established his reputation in Athens and this allowed him later to procure young men for his lecture series and allowed him, like Protagoras, to become quite wealthy. Memoirs of Socrates II.1, his writing is vivid with a mellifluous unity. Secondly, he showed great interest with apparent synonyms and made it his mission to draw distinctions between different words. Protagoras starting at 335c. (In reference to T12, preserved in Pherc1428, we were told the story of the twin cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which were buried in AD 79 by a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. When workers were laying the foundation of a new house in 1757, they came upon a villa which had been buried in the eruption.
Zurück Astrid Möller
Translate this page Mai 2001, im Druck. hippias of elis and the Year 776 BC A Clarification,in Time and Temporality in the Ancient World, hg. von
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Extractions: Lebenslauf in Berlin geboren Promotion FU Berlin seit 1991 verheiratet Mitglied des kleinen Senats als Vertreterin des wiss. Dienstes Fellow am Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC Feodor-Lynen-Stipendiatin am Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche dell'Antichità, Università di Perugia WS 2002 Habilitation in Alter Geschichte Habilitationsschrift Genealogien, Listen, Synchronismen. Studien zur griechischen Chronographie Forschungsschwerpunkte griechische Wirtschaftsgeschichte; antike Historiographie; kulturelles Gedächtnis; Sparta; Geschichtstheorie; Tod und Jenseitsvorstellungen Publikationen Monographien Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece, Oxford University Press 2000 (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) Artikel und Beiträge (in Auswahl) mit N. Luraghi: Time in the Writing of History: Perceptions and Structures, Storia della Storiografia 28 (1995) 3-15 ktisis von Maroneia, Klio 78 (1996) 311-320 Naukratis, or How to Identify a 'Port of Trade', in: D. W. Tandy (Hg.), Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class and Political Economy, Montreal (Black Rose Books) 2001, 145-158 The Beginning of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai , in: N. Luraghi (Hg.), The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus, Oxford University Press 2001, 241-262
Sydney Olympic Games History And Facts From Koala Express In Sydney Australia 20
The first record of the Olympic Games comes from hippias of elis in the fifth centuryBCE, though the first Olympic victory is dated to 776 BCE (this assumes
http://www.koalaexpress.com.au/olympics.htm

Extractions: The Greek athletic games, otherwise commonly recognized as the Panhellenic Games, were an integral part of Greek life. They combined religion, sport, and music into extravagant festivals involving peoples throughout Mediterranean. Not only did they attract thousands of participants and spectators to their venues, but they also promoted solidarity among the various Greek city-states. By the Classical period, their influence was felt throughout Greece. There were four main games: the Olympic Games, Pythian Games, Nemean Games, and Isthmian Games. The games at Olympia were the oldest and most famous of these. They all began quite humbly as religious ceremonies. While the games had a small religious aspect throughout their history, this role diminished as time progressed. Mythological evidence suggests that the athletic events originally served as entertainment for humans and gods and were loosely associated with sacrificial offerings. At first they were purely local events most likely spanning two or three days, consisting only of dancing, running, and wrestling. The centrepiece of every Olympics is the track and field stadium. Stadium Australia has built the largest Olympic arena in history with 110,000 spectators able to see the opening and closing ceremonies, track and field program and the final of the men's soccer tournament. Under an agreement brokered by the Olympic Co-ordination Authority, the majority of the cost of the $A615 million stadium is being borne by the private sector with the NSW public having ultimate ownership of the venue. Stadium Australia has already hosted several world-class events including top-flight rugby league and union, American NFL and the FIFA All Stars.
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: The Metaphysical Period - Page 1
c. hippias of elis. Hippias taught science among other things and appears inPlato's Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, and Protagoras. d. Prodicus of Ceos.
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The Quadratrix
The curve already appears in ancient Greek geometry. It's named afterhippias of elis and was used by Dinostratus and Nicomedes.
http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hs/quadratrix/quadratrix.html

Extractions: given (the radius of) a circle, construct (the side of) a square whose area equals the area of the circle. In the ancient Greek tradition the only tools that are available for these constructions are a ruler and a compass . During the 19th century the French mathematician Pierre Wantzel proved that under these circumstances the first two of those constructions are impossible and for the squaring of the circle it lasted until 1882 before a proof had been given by Ferdinand von Lindemann
Biblical Horizons : CH: Biblical Chronology Newsletter No. 6_02
use. Plutarch (c. AD 50120) says that hippias of elis, in the late5th century BC, drew up a list of victors of the races. But
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Extractions: February, 1994 Problems With Current Consensus Chronology by James B. Jordan Last month we began a survey and review of Centuries of Darkness by Peter James (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [1991] 1993). The thesis of this book is that the dark ages that supposedly happened all over the Mediterranean world between about 1100 and 800 B.C. never actually happened, and that these dark ages, as well as other problems of ancient history and archaeology, are really the results of "a gigantic academic blunder, perpetuated by the convenience of a seemingly reliable time-scale, as well as the sheer complexity of the issues involved" (p. 320). In the course of their discussions, James and his colleagues discuss some other problems with ancient world chronology. I want to begin this month with a survey of some of these. Carbon-14 Dating Creationists are accustomed to criticisms of Carbon-14 dating, but it is interesting to read such criticisms in a secular work. Carbon-14 is an unstable radioactive isotope and it constantly changes back into nitrogen by the emission of an electron. Half the Carbon-14 in a block of carbon will revert to nitrogen in about 5730 years. By measuring this, scientists can determine when the carbon was produced, supposedly. Since, however, this method is not very accurate, Carbon-14 dates are always quoted with a Standard Deviation, which represents the degree of accuracy.
Hippias
hippias of elis Presents a discussion of Hippias' character and his contributionto mathematics. Hippias's Quadratrix How to create the curve.
http://www.csce.uark.edu/~crane/people/hippias.htm

Extractions: Died: about 400 BC Definition of the Quadratix of Hippias: A segment AB translates uniformly from AB to CD at the same time ray OA rotates about point O uniformly clockwise until it reaches OD. The curve traced out by the intersection of the segment and the ray is the quadratrix. Thomas Little Heath says:
Protagoras By Plato
when we have heard what he has to say, we may take counsel of others; for not onlyis Protagoras at the house of Callias, but there is hippias of elis, and, if
http://www.4literature.net/Plato/Protagoras/3.html

Extractions: Protagoras by Plato Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. That's less then a penny per book! Click here for more information. Read, write, or comment on essays about Protagoras Search for books Search essays Protagoras; and when we have heard what he has to say, we may take counsel of others; for not only is Protagoras at the house of Callias, but there is Hippias of Elis, and, if I am not mistaken, Prodicus of Ceos, and several other wise men. After him, as Homer says, "I lifted up my eyes and saw" Hippias the Elean sitting in the opposite cloister on a chair of state, and around him were seated on benches Eryximachus, the son of Acumenus, and Phaedrus the Myrrhinusian, and Andron the son of Androtion, and there were strangers whom he had brought with him from his native city of Elis, and some others: they were putting to Hippias certain physical and astronomical questions, and he, ex cathedra, was determining their several questions to them, and discoursing of them. No sooner had we entered than there followed us Alcibiades the beautiful, as you say, and I believe you; and also Critias the son of Callaeschrus.
19a-19d
Although this also seems to me to be a fine thing, if one might be able to teachpeople, as Gorgias of Leontini and Prodicus of Ceos and hippias of elis are.
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Extractions: Defense Against the First Accusers Socrates argues that he is not a sophist. But in fact none of these things are true, and if you have heard from anyone that I undertake to teach people and that I make money by it, that is not true either. Although this also seems to me to be a fine thing, if one might be able to teach people, as Gorgias of Leontini and Prodicus of Ceos and Hippias of Elis are. For each of these men, gentlemen, is able to go into any one of the cities and persuade the young men, who can associate for nothing with whomsoever they wish among their own fellow citizens, to give up the association with those men and to associate with them and pay them money and be grateful besides. And there is also another wise man here, a Parian, who I learned was in town; for I happened to meet a man who has spent more on sophists than all the rest, Callias , the son of Hipponicus; so I asked him for he has two sons "Callias," said I, "if your two sons had happened to be two colts or two calves, we should be able to get and hire for them an overseer who would make them virtuous in the kind of virtue proper to them; and he would be a horse-trainer or a husbandman; but now, since they are two human beings, whom have you in mind to get as overseer? Who has knowledge of that kind of virtue, that of a man and a citizen? For I think you have looked into the matter, because you have the sons. Is there anyone," said I, "or not? " "Certainly," said he. "Who," said I, "and where from, and what is his price for his teaching? " "
Rhetoricians.com--a Place To Be Rhetorical
Contemporary I. Contemporary II. Contemporary III. About. Resources. Community.hippias of elis; Prodicus of Ceos. Do sophists still exist? You be the judge.
http://www.stevenweiss.com/rhetoric/html/sophists.html
Hippias Von Elis
hippias von elis hippias von elis, gegen Ende des 5. Jarhundert v. Chr., aus elis, Sophist. Er war ein jüngerer Zeitgenosse des Sophisten Protagoras und des Sokrates.
http://www.lateinforum.de/thesauru/WdAntike/H/hippias2.htm

Extractions: Hippias von Elis Hippias von Elis , gegen Ende des 5. Jarhundert v. Chr., aus Elis, Sophist. Protagoras und des Sokrates. Sein Bildungsproramm beinhaltete Grammatik, Poesie, Mathematik, Musik und Astronomie. Er soll eine Liste der Olympiasieger zu chronologischen Zwecken zusammengestellt haben. Xenophon, Memorabilia 4, 4, 5 Es gibt zwei platonische zwei Dialogedie nach ihm benannt sind. a) Hippias minor b) Hippias maior (Die Echtheit dieses Dialoges ist umstritten). Sophist Vgl. auch Gorgias Prodikos Protagoras Quelle: Peter Rehfeld 2001 s. v. Hippias von Elis zur Homepage Inhaltsverzeichnis Neues?
HIPPIAS D'Elis
hippias. dElis. Vers 460 vers 400 av J.C. hippias était un politicien et un philosophe qui voyagea de hippias se disait capable dimproviser un discours sur nimporte quel
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Extractions: Vers 460 vers 400 av J.C Hippias était un politicien et un philosophe qui voyagea de ville en ville en monnayant ses « services ». Il sintéressa à la poésie, à la Grammaire, à lHistoire, à la Politique, à la Musique, à la Sculpture, à lArchitecture, aux Mathématiques et à lAstronomie ainsi que le faisait tout bon « penseur » à son époque. Platon qui apparemment ne lappréciait pas, le décrit comme un personnage vaniteux, arrogant et vantard, nayant que des connaissances superficielles dans les nombreux domaines quil se flattait de connaître. Hippias se disait capable dimproviser un discours sur nimporte quel sujet. Il écrivit des poésies, des épopées, des tragédies et toutes sortes duvres en prose. Il maîtrisait parfaitement toutes les techniques du calcul, connaissait la Géométrie, lAstronomie, lHarmonie musicale et la Rhétorique. Il possédait surtout une mémoire prodigieuse quil cultivait sans cesse. A la fin de sa vie, il était encore capable de réciter cinquante noms dans lordre où il les avait entendus une seule fois. Tout ce quil portait sur lui : vêtements, sandales, objets personnels, il lavait fabriqué de ses propres mains.
Hippias Von Elis - Ureda
E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Ü Y Z Ö. hippias von elis. Siehe unter Sophisten
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Hippias D'Elis
dur avec les Sophistes, nous parle d'hippias d'elis dans ses dialogues Protagoras, hippias mineur et hippias majeur.
http://www.reunion.iufm.fr/recherche/irem/histoire/hippias_d%27elis.htm

Extractions: Accueil Histoire des mathématiques Philosophie des sciences Axiomatiques ... Informations - Contacts HIPPIAS dElis grec, vers -450 Philosophe sophiste et diplomate, Hippias dElis se frotte au problème de la trisection de langle dont il serait l'initiateur et invente une courbe, "la trisectrice", qui en permette une solution approchée (construction point par point) appelée cependant quadratrice de Dinostrate car ce dernier lutilise pour tenter la quadrature d u cerc l e. La trisection de l'angle Comment placer les droites (OY), (OZ) telles que lon ait : XÔY = YÔZ = ZÔT ? Cette réalisation au sens de " constructible " naturellement. Hippias dElis propose de ramener la subdivision régulière du cercle à celle dun segment. Un cercle C est donné avec deux rayons OA et OB perpendiculaires. Un point P décrit uniformément (OB). Un point N décrit uniformément larc AB. On considère M sur (ON) de même ordonnée que P . La quadratrice est lensemble des points M, intersection de (ON) et de la droite D parallèle à (OA) passant par P. La solution proposée par Hippias dElis est la plus ancienne solution proposée .
Geschichte Der Philosophie
von Leontinoi; hippias aus elis; Prodikos aus Keos; Kritias; Xeniades;
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