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          Biography of Bias of Priene, one of the acclaimed Seven Sages of Ancient Greece (6th Century B.C.) Who was he?!

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          6. Bias of Priene

          Bias of Priene (first half sixth century BCE): Greek politician, one of the Seven Sages.

          There's not much we know for certain about Bias of Priene.

          His biography, written by Diogenes Laertius in the late second century CE, has some length, but does not appear to be very reliable: the first half contains some stereotypical anecdotes that may have been told about every wise person, while the second half contains several maxims that are not terribly inspiring either.

          Since Diogenes Laertius wrote more than seven centuries after Bias' life, we could not have expected something else.

          We gain more certainty when we read Herodotus' Histories, which were composed about a century after Bias.

          Herodotus tells us that Bias, when the Persians had defeated the Lydian king Croesus (after 547 BCE), advised the Greeks of Asia Minor to leave their cities and migrate to the far west, and build a new city on Sardinia. The author of the Histories adds that he considered this to b