Concept
Menexenus
Overview
Son of Socrates and Xanthippe
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I will be sure to do so, Socrates; but go on telling him something new, and let me hear, as long as I am allowed to stay. I certainly cannot refuse, I said, since you ask me; but then, as you know, Menexenus is very pugnacious, and therefore you must come to the rescue if he attempts to upset me. Yes, indeed, he said; he is very pugnacious, and that is the reason why I want you to argue with him. That I may make a…
Plato, Lysis
Names Menexenus several times; states what Menexenus is.
SOCRATES: Certainly 'not.' MENEXENUS: Do you think that you could speak yourself if there should be a necessity, and if the Council were to choose you? SOCRATES: That I should be able to speak is no great wonder, Menexenus, considering that I have an excellent mistress in the art of rhetoric,--she who has made so many good speakers, and one who was the best among all the Hellenes--Pericles, the son of Xanthippus…
Plato, Menexenus
Names Menexenus several times; the book is titled for Menexenus.
Pericles's inclination for her seems, however, to have rather proceeded from the passion of love. He had a wife that was near of kin to him, who had been married first to Hipponicus, by whom she had Callias, surnamed the Rich; and also she brought Pericles, while she lived with him, two sons, Xanthippus and Paralus. Afterwards, when they did not well agree nor like to live together, he parted with her, with her own…
Plutarch, Plutarch
Names Menexenus.
Philosophers who discussed Menexenus
Related ideas
- Phaedo
- Rhetoric (Aristotle)
- Plato
- Socrates
- Trial of Socrates
- Aristotle
- Apology (Plato)
- Lysis (dialogue)
- Xanthippe
- Lamprocles
Place in the tradition
Part of Socrates.