Lamprocles
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Lamprocles was Socrates
' and Xanthippe
's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus
and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was only a lad (meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle
, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable: "silly and dull".
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
' and Xanthippe
Xanthippe
Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as forty years.-Name:...
's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus
Menexenus
The Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The characters are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus. The Menexenus of Plato's dialogue appears also...
and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was only a lad (meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable: "silly and dull".