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- Menexenus (/ məˈnɛksənəs /; Greek: Μενέξενоς) was one of the three sons of Socrates and Xanthippe. His two brothers were Lamprocles and Sophroniscus. Menexenus is not to be confused with the character of the same name who appears in Plato 's dialogues Menexenus and Lysis.
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The Menexenus ( / məˈnɛksənəs /; Greek: Μενέξενος) is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The speakers are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com.
Oct 23, 2008 · MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have the speech, whether Aspasia's or any one else's, no matter. I hope that you will oblige me. SOCRATES: But I am afraid that you will laugh at me if I continue the games of youth in old age. MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let us by all means have the speech.
The Menexenus ( / məˈnɛksənəs /; Greek: Μενέξενος) is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The speakers are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus.
Introduction to the Menexenus. The Menexenus is an interesting little work, not so much for the matter it contains as for the literary problems which it raises. Sandwiched between two short pieces of dialogue it gives us what purports to be a funeral oration composed by Aspasia and reported by Socrates,—an oration which challenges comparison ...
Menexenus Certainly if you, Socrates, allow and counsel me to govern, I shall do so gladly; but otherwise not. This time, however, I went to the Council Chamber because I had learnt that the Council was going to select someone to make an oration over the dead; for you know that they propose to arrange for funeral rites.
Thus, Plato's Menexenus is not only a political pamphlet, but a pamphlet in a well-defined series of appeals for Panhellenic unity, stretching from Gor- gias' Olympiac to Isocrates' Panegyric. Like the other three members of the group, it is in form an oration, and a. literary oration of the Gorgianic or.
