Lamprokles

Lamprokles (* around 416 BC; † after 399 BC) was one of the three sons of the Greek philosopher Socrates (* 469 BC; † 399 BC). While Lamprokles emerged from the marriage of Socrates (with the proverbially difficult and quarrelsome Xanthippe ), the thinker's other two sons, Sophroniskos and Menexenus , possibly come from a parallel connection with Myrto , an impoverished widow who had taken Socrates into his house (It is possible that illegitimate children were also recognized as legitimate at the time of the Peloponnesian War in Athens). Lamprokles grew up with his brothers in Alopeke near Athens , where his father owned a small estate.

In his " Memorabilia ", the historian Xenophon narrates a dialogue between Socrates and Lamprokles, in which Socrates tries to get his son to show his contentious and harsh mother Xanthippe the gratitude demanded and expected by religion and society despite her hard-to-tolerate manners testify. No details are known about the later life of Lamprokles.

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• Xenophon: " Memories of Socrates ". (" Memorabilia ", Book II 2, 1-14).

literature

• Debra Nails: The People of Plato. A Prosopography of Plato and other Socratics . Hackett, Indianapolis IN et al. 2002, ISBN 0-87220-564-9 , pp. 183 and 208 ff.