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Lamprocles ( Greek: Λαμπροκλῆς) was Socrates ' and Xanthippe 's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was only a boy (μειράκιον meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable "fools and dullards".
Anthene lamprocles, the lesser black-patches, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Nigeria (the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele and Ituri). [2] The habitat consists of forests.
actually specifies that according to the harmonikoi, Lamprocles devel-oped a harmonia "invented" by the aulete Pythocleides. In the light of these several associations of Lamprocles and the aulos, the scholiasts' ActpnpoVoXo;g rtoi &O Xrloi, "Lamprocles the athlete," may be emended to read AcxugnpoKiXiot;g ro acuixbrlo1: "Lam-
Name variations: Xantippe. Born around 435 bce; death date unknown; married Socrates (the Greek philosopher); children—only sons are known: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. Xanthippe was the much maligned—if not silent—wife of the famous Socrates. (It is possible that Socrates was married once before Xanthippe, for a suspect ...
Plato, Menexenus, page 235. text: page: [ 235a ] and the variety and splendor of their diction, they bewitch our souls; and they eulogize the State in every possible fashion, and they praise those who died in the war and all our ancestors of former times and ourselves who are living still; so that I myself, Menexenus, when thus praised by them ...
Extract. The Menexenus is also known as Plato's Epitaphios or Funeral Oration. The body of the work is a fictional funeral oration, composed as an example of what should be said at a public funeral for Athenians who have fallen in war. The oration is framed by an encounter between Socrates and a certain Menexenus, an eager young man who thinks ...
