Biography:Lamprocles
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Short description: Son of Socrates
Lamprocles (Greek: Λαμπροκλῆς) was Socrates' and Xanthippe's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was a youth (μειράκιον meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable "fools and dullards".[1]
References
- Plato, Apology 34d; Phaedo 116b.
- Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.2.1–14.
- Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2 Chapter 15 [2].
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