Protagoras

Introduction

Before dawn the young Hippocrates knocks at Socrates' door: the great sophist Protagoras has come to Athens and he wants to study with him. The two go to the house of the wealthy Callias, where the most famous sophists of Greece are gathered. Socrates and Protagoras then argue at length over whether virtue can be taught and whether the virtues are one, and Protagoras tells his myth of Prometheus. It is one of Plato's liveliest and most dramatic scenes, a portrait of the intellectual world of classical Athens.