critus are either compilations from his writings or admittedly not genuine. So much for the books that he wrote and their number. The name of Democritus has been borne by six persons : (1) our philosopher ; (2) a contemporary of his. a musician of Chios ; (3) a sculptor, mentioned by Antigonus ; (4) an author who wrote on the temple at Ephesus and the state of Samothrace ; (5) an epigrammatist whose style is lucid and ornate ; (6) a native of Pergamum who made his mark by rhetorical speeches. Chapter 8. PROTAGORAS (481-411 b.c.) Protagoras, son of Artemon or, according to Apollodorus and Dinon in the fifth book of his History of Persia, of Maeandrius, was born at Abdera (so says Heraclides of Pontus in his treatise On Laws, and also that he made laws for Thurii) or, according to Eupolis in his Flatterers, at Teos ; for the latter says : Inside we've got Protagoras of Teos. He and Prodicus of Ceos gave public readings for which fees were charged, and Plato in the Protagoras a calls Prodicus deep-voiced. Protagoras studied under Democritus. The latter b was nicknamed " Wisdom," according to Favorinus in his Miscellaneous History. Protagoras was the first to maintain that there are two sides to every question, opposed to each other, and he even argued in this fashion, being the first to do so. Furthermore he began a work thus : Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they