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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.
Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License . An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus ...
Oct 23, 2008 · MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let us by all means have the speech. SOCRATES: Truly I have such a disposition to oblige you, that if you bid me dance naked I should not like to refuse, since we are alone. Listen then: If I remember rightly, she began as follows, with the mention of the dead:— (Thucyd.)
MENEXENUS. The Funeral Oration - Original Greek Text. by Plato (see Appendix I) - Translated by Benjamin Jowett. PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus. SOCRATES: Whence come you, Menexenus? Are you from the Agora? MENEXENUS: Yes, Socrates; I have been at the Council. SOCRATES: And what might you be doing at the Council? And yet I need ...
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 with the famous Periclean ...
Menexenus (/ m ə ˈ n ɛ k s ə n ə s /; 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 .
