Protagoras

In Plato’s “Protagoras,” Socrates argues that dancing girls have no place in philosophical gatherings.

You know, it goes back to Plato’s Protagoras.

At one particularly erudite confrontation, the movie director Michelangelo Antonioni is pitted against an unprepossessing old woman; still another requires the group’s mysterious leader, known as the Great Protagoras, to face an upstart challenger.

Anaxagoras, Protagoras, and of course Socrates were hauled up on charges of heresy and impiety.

According to one tradition, when the philosopher Protagoras was convicted on charges of heresy, his books were dumped in the city marketplace and burned.