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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. The Menexenus of Plato's dialogue appears also in ...
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 .
A dialogue between Socrates and Menexenus, a young man who claims to be educated in philosophy and politics. Socrates questions his knowledge and challenges him to prove his claims.
- Appendix I.
- Introduction.
- Persons of The Dialogue: Socrates and Menexenus.
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It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value of the Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty conce...
The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, to whom in the Phaedrus Plato shows a strong antipathy, he is entirely successful, but he is not equal to Thucydides. The Mene...
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 hardly ask, for I see that you, believing yourself to have arrived at the end of education and of philosophy, and to have had enough of them, are mounting upwards to...
A dialogue between Socrates and Menexenus about the constitution of Athens and the laws of Solon. The web page provides the full text of the translation by Benjamin Jowett, as well as an introduction on the genuineness of Plato's writings.
Other articles where Menexenus is discussed: Plato: Early dialogues of Plato: The Menexenus purports to be a funeral oration that Socrates learned from Aspasia, the mistress of Pericles (himself celebrated for the funeral oration assigned to him by Thucydides, one of the most famous set pieces of Greek antiquity). This work may be a satire on the…
Menexenus is a short dialogue by Plato in which Socrates and his nephew Menexenus discuss the funeral oration that the Athenians are planning to deliver. The dialogue explores the themes of education, politics, and the ideal state.
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A dialogue between Socrates and Menexenus, in which Socrates attributes a funeral oration to Aspasia, a famous orator and lover of Pericles. The oration praises Athens and her heroes, but also reveals the flaws of current oratory and the historical inaccuracies of the text.
