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Recent scholars have disputed Diogenes, and argued that Plato was the original name of the philosopher, and that the legend about his name being Aristocles originated in the Hellenistic age. W. K. C. Guthrie points out that Ρlato was a common name in ancient Greece, of which 31 instances are known at Athens alone. [31]
Plato Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC Born 428/427 or 424/423 BC Athens Died 348 BC (aged c. 75–80) Athens Notable work Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Meno Protagoras Gorgias Symposium Phaedrus Parmenides Theaetetus Republic Timaeus Laws Era Ancient Greek philosophy School Platonic Academy Notable students Aristotle Main interests Epistemology, Metaphysics Political philosophy ...
Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé. Xanthippe (/ z æ n ˈ θ ɪ p i /; Ancient Greek: Ξανθίππη [ksantʰíppɛː]; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus.
In Plato's Phaedrus, it is related that, with time, the erômenos develops a "passionate longing" for his erastês and a "reciprocal love" for him that is a replica of the erastês’ love. The erômenos is also said to have a desire "similar to the erastes', albeit weaker, to see, to touch, to kiss and to lie with him". [89]
The scroll, which documents the history of Greek philosophy, states that Plato was sold into slavery on the island of Aegina around 400 B.C. Previously, it was believed he had become enslaved in ...
Her illustrious family goes back to Dropides, archon of the year 644 b.c. [3] She was married to Ariston, and had three sons (Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Plato) and a daughter . [4] After Ariston's death, she remarried Pyrilampes, an Athenian statesman and her uncle. She had her fifth child, Antiphon, with Pyrilampes.
The wife would likely also have needed the support of her father and family. [11] The wife was financially protected by laws which declared her dowry was to be returned in cases of divorce. [ 2 ] There were two additional procedures by which people other than the couple could dissolve a marriage.
The original source for the claim that she was Socrates' wife appears to have been a work by Aristotle called On Being Well-Born, [1] [2] [3] although Plutarch expresses doubt that the work is genuine. She was apparently the daughter, [3] or, more probably, the granddaughter of Aristides. [2]