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".

[edit] References

  • Plato, Apology 34d; Pheado 116b.
  • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.2.1-14.
  • Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1390b30-32.