Protagoras’ paradox is a paradox originating in ancient Greece. It is said that the famous lawyer and scholar Protagoras took on a pupil, Euathlus, for not paying his fees.

This book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett ...

This essay reevaluates scholarship regarding the myth of Prometheus in Plato's Protagoras and offers a new interpretation that focuses on the potential of Hermes as representative par excellence of ...

Although it is a commonplace that the "Protagoras" and the "Republic" present diffent views of akrasia, the nature of the difference is not well understood. I argue that the logic of the famous ...

Nevertheless some of the Sophists, like Protagoras, were very idealistic. During the Peloponnesian War, he defied new laws restricting what could be taught and as a result many of his books were ...