Protagoras

In the Protagoras Socrates tells a companion how, at dawn, the young Hippocrates woke him to be taken to the famous sophist Protagoras, who is staying in Athens at the house of Callias with Hippias and Prodicus. Socrates asks whether virtue can be taught, and Protagoras answers with a speech and the myth of Epimetheus and Prometheus, in which Zeus sends Hermes to give justice and reverence to all men. The conversation then turns to whether the virtues are one, to an interpretation of an ode of Simonides, and to the claim that no one does wrong willingly, and ends with the two men seeming to exchange their positions on whether virtue is knowledge.