Hippias Major (or What is Beauty? or Greater Hippias (Greek: Ἱππίας μείζων, Hippías meízōn), to distinguish it from the Hippias Minor, which has the same chief character), is one of the …

Pittacus of Mitylene, Bias of Priene, and Thales of Miletus were among the traditional seven wise men. Daedalus, the traditional inventor of sculpture. The word οὖτος does not indicate that …

Jun 27, 2008 · Most scholars agree that Plato wrote the Hippias Major, and its sustained inquiry into beauty is seen as central to Platonic aesthetics. The Hippias Major follows Socrates and …

Later in the dialogue Hippias invites Socrates to listen to one such speech of his (286a—c), the very speech that he has presumably just finished giving when the Lesser Hippias begins.

The Hippias Major takes up the question “What is the beautiful (the fine)?” Widely agreed to be spurious are Axiochus, Definitions, Demodocus, Epinomis, Eryxias, Halcyon, Hipparchus, …

But, Hippias, what precisely is the reason why those men of old, whose names are a byword for wisdom – Pittacus and Bias, and the associates of Thales of Miletus, [2] and those who came …

Hippias: I am too busy, Socrates. For whenever Elis needs to have any business transacted with any of the states, she always comes to me first of her citizens and chooses me as envoy, …

Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position: Hippias, beautiful and wise, what a long time it is since you have put in at the port of Athens! I am too busy, Socrates.

In Hippias Major, Socrates and Hippias set out to find a definition for "beauty", but are destined to fail due to their inability to formulate an answer which encompasses the entire concept. …

Introduction to the Greater Hippias ... The Greater Hippias presents the great sophist of Elis as a distinguished representative of his profession, thoroughly imbued with self-confidence and self …