Socrates (disambiguation)

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Socrates can refer to these people:

[edit] Philosophy, ancient Greece, church history

• Socrates, a philosopher of Ancient Greece
• Socrates, an Athenian commander mentioned by Thucydides Bk 2.23
• Socrates the Achaean, a mercenary of the Ten Thousand
• Socrates the Younger, an interlocutor in Plato's Stateman, peer of Theaetetus, and later one of Aristotle's fellow students in the Academy.
• Socrates, hipparchos (cavalry officer) of Alexander the Great's army
• Christian martyrs Socrates and Stephen
• Socrates Scholasticus, a Byzantine church historian

[edit] Medicine

• Socrates is a mnemonic used for evaluating a patient's 'pain'.

[edit] Literature

• Socrates (Petrarch), a pseudonym for one of Petrarch's addressees (Ludwig van Kempen, also known as Ludovico Santo di Beringen)

[edit] Football (Soccer)

• Sócrates, a Brazilian football (soccer) player

[edit] Government and Politics

• José Sócrates, prime minister of Portugal

[edit] Music

• Sylvester Hodges, stage name Socrates, 4 time calypso king of St Kitts and Nevis
• Saukrates, a rapper from Toronto
• Socrate, a symphonic drama about Socrates by Erik Satie
• Socrates Drank The Conium (sometimes abbreviated to Socrates), a Greek rock band of the 1970s.
• Socratic (band) Rock Band from the 2000s originating from New Jersey

[edit] Education

• Socrates programme, a European education programme

[edit] Edutainment, computer entertainment

• Socrates by VTech, an 8-bit edutainment system which featured a wireless controller
• Socrates, a chessplaying computer program.
• Socrates "Cooch" Windgrass, a character in Footrot Flats