Eurymedon of Myrrhinous

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Eurymedon of Myrrhinous ( Greek  Εὐρυμέδων Eurymédōn ) was the husband of the Potone , the sister of the philosopher Plato , and the father of the philosopher Speusippus . He lived in the late 5th century and perhaps as late as the 4th century BC. Chr.

Eurymedon came from the Attic Demos Myrrhinous . Clues for his life dates result from his marriage with the probably between 432 and 424 BC. Born Potone and from the fact that his son Speusippus around 410/407 BC. Was born in BC. It is probable that Eurymedon and Potone also had a daughter who gave birth to a daughter who married Speusippus - their uncle. Speusippus was born in 348/347 BC. The successor of his uncle Plato as head of the Platonic Academy ( Scholarch ).

The Eurymedon, whom Plato named in his will together with six other people, including Speusippus, as executor, was probably a descendant - probably a grandson - of Plato's brother-in-law of the same name. He owned a plot of land in the Eiresidai Demos, which was adjacent to a plot of land belonging to Plato, which reached in the west as far as the River Kephisos .

literature

  • John K. Davies: Athenian Property Families, 600-300 BC Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 334
  • Debra Nails: The People of Plato. A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics . Hackett, Indianapolis 2002, ISBN 0-87220-564-9 , pp. 254, 337 (and family table p. 244)
  • Leonardo Tarán: Speusippus of Athens. A critical study with a collection of the related texts and commentary . Brill, Leiden 1981, ISBN 90-04-06505-9 , pp. 175f.

Remarks

  1. ^ Pseudo-Plato, Letter 13 361e.
  2. ↑ Diogenes Laertios 3.43.
  3. ↑ Leonardo Tarán: Speusippus of Athens , Leiden 1981, p. 176; Debra Nails: The People of Plato , Indianapolis 2002, p. 254.
  4. ↑ Diogenes Laertios 3.42. See Marie-Françoise Billot: Annexe: Académie . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 1, Paris 1989, pp. 693–789, here: 785.
personal data
SURNAME Eurymedon of Myrrhinous
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Plato's brother-in-law, father of Speusippus
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.