PRODICUS ON CORRECTNESS OF NAMES

Prodicus of Ceos was rightfully considered one of the most famous sophists of his time. However neither research in the field of rhetoric, nor examples of eloquence and sophisticated argumentation (although, undoubtedly, all this was also his area of interest) are his main legacy. This paper will focus on his method of comparing synony-mous words, which was used to determine their exact meaning and identify differences. This method was the result of a deep interest in the study of language and, perhaps, was a response to the skepticism of contemporaries about what can be considered real and the moral relativism that flowed from such views.