You are at Abdera, on the coast of Thrace. Diogenes Laertius says Protagoras was born there (though the comic poet Eupolis called him a man of Teos), and that he gave public readings for which he charged fees.
He says Protagoras was the first to hold that every question has two opposing sides, and that he began a book with this sentence.
Plato's Socrates takes it up in the Theaetetus: if each of us is the measure, things are for me as they seem to me, and for you as they seem to you.
This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess, 2 Know yourself, 3 Everything moves on, 4 Life is short, 5 The art is long.
Forgot how a letter is read? The whole alphabet
ClickTap a word to see what it means here, as you would in the reader. The words with a dotted line are new: sound each one out and guess its meaning before you look.
4 new words still to look at.