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Socrates discusses with a friend who, in contrast with other Platonic dialogues, is not the Hipparchus of title, and remains unnamed throughout the text. The dialogue opens with a direct question by which Socrates sets the theme for the entire discussion, namely "what is love of gain" (τί γὰρ τὸ φιλοκερδές). His friend ...
The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House is a historic Friends meeting house located near the community of Colerain, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1815 for a group formed in 1801, it has been named a historic site. Founded as "Concord", Colerain was the second community to be founded in present-day Belmont County.
Patrocles (Ancient Greek: Πατροκλῆς) was an Athenian of the Classical period, known chiefly for being the half‐brother of the philosopher Socrates. [1] Patrocles was King Archon of the board of ten oligarchs who replaced the Thirty Tyrants after their downfall.
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Hermodorus (Greek: Ἑρμόδωρος), an Ephesian [1] who lived in the 4th century BC, was an original member of Plato's Academy and was present at the death of Socrates. [2] He is said to have circulated the works of Plato (combined Socratic tenets with the Eleaticism of Parmenides [ 2 ] ), and to have sold them in Sicily . [ 3 ]
Crito grew up in the Athenian deme of Alopece alongside Socrates and was of roughly the same age as the philosopher, [1] placing his year of birth around 469 BC. [2] Plato's Euthydemus and Xenophon's Memorabilia both present him as a wealthy businessman [3] who made his money from agriculture, [4] [5] which scholars speculate was conducted in Alopece itself. [2]
Little is known about Sophroniscus and his relationship with his son Socrates. According to tradition, Sophroniscus was by trade a stonemason or sculptor. [1] Plato scholars Thomas Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith question the authenticity of that tradition, mainly on the grounds that the earliest extant sources of the story are comparatively late and that it is unmentioned by more reliable ...
Lysis (/ ˈ l aɪ s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Λύσις, genitive case Λύσιδος, showing the stem Λύσιδ-, from which the infrequent translation Lysides), is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (), often translated as friendship, while the word's original content was of a much larger and more intimate bond. [1]