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Euclides
(2,633 words)
(Εὐκλείδης;
Eukleídēs). [German version] [1] Athenian archon in 403/2 BC Athenian archon in 403/2 BC. During his year in office Athens made a new start following the Oligarchy of the Thirty (e.g., see And. 1,87-94) and, among others, officially adopted the Ionian alphabet (Theopomp. FGrH 115 F 155). …
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Alexinus
(186 words)
[German version] (Ἀλεξῖνος;
Alexînos) of Elis: a philosopher of the Megarian school, who lived in the decades around 300 BC, A. first taught in his hometown of Elis, then in Olympia. In his treatise ‘On Education’ (Περὶ ἀγωγῆς;
Perì agōgês), A. adopted a mediating position in the dispute between philosophers and rhetoricians concerning which of them played the primary role in education: one can learn a certain degree of skill of argument from rhetoricians, but these arguments are based on experience, probability and assumption, rather than on the knowledge of scientific methods of proof. Consequently, rhetoricians must allow the scrutiny of dialectically schooled philosophers (Philod. Rhet. 2 col. XLIV 19 - XLIX 19). In another of his writings, A. tries to disprove the validity of Zeno's proof for the rationality of the world. (Cic. Nat. D. 3,22-23; Sext…
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Glaucon
(411 words)
(Γλαύκων;
Glaúkōn). [German version] [1] Athen. strategós about 440 BC Son of Leagoras, Athenian
stratēgós at Samos in 441-440 BC (Androtion FGrH 324 F 38 with comm.); in 439-438 and 435-434
stratēgós, in 433-432 commander of the fleet sent to Corcyra (Thuc. 1,51; Syll.3 72). Often mentioned on Attic
kalos-inscriptions in 480-450 BC. Traill, PAA 277035. Meier, Mischa (Bielefeld) [German version] [2] Son of Critias, father of Plato's mother Perictione Son of Critias, father of Charmides and of Plato's mother Per…
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Letters of Socrates and of the Socratics
(534 words)
[German version] Transmitted in nine MSS from the period 1269/70 to the beginning of the 17th cent. are seven letters of Socrates [2] and 20 of the Socratics in various arrangements, some complete, some in selections (epist. 1-27, numbering according to Köhler [5]), and in addition six letters from and to Speusippus (epist. 28; 30-34), a letter from Plato to the Macedonian king Philippus [4] II. (epist. 29), and a final letter written in the Doric dialect riddled with corruptions, with unknown s…
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Maieutic method
(164 words)
[German version] from the Greek μαιευτική (
maieutikḗ, sc.
téchnē), ‘midwifery. In Plato's dialogue
Theaetetus (148e-151d) Socrates compares his ability to recognize whether or not hidden wisdom lies dormant in others, and to help them if necessary to bring it to light, with the craft of his mother, the midwife (
maía) Phaenarete, and of midwives in general, to recognize pregnancies and to help deliver the baby. It is contested whether or not the historical Socrates used this comparison but the stronger arguments speak against it. In Middle Platonism the MM of Socrates was interpreted as his ability to bring others to activate their latent knowledge of ideas through
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Aristippus
(645 words)
(Ἀρίστιππος;
Arístippos) [German version] [1] Tyrant of Argos (middle of the 3rd cent. BC) From Argus, friend of the Antigonids, against whom his rival Aristeas called Pyrrhus into the town in 272 BC (Plut. Pyrrh. 30,2); after 272/1 probably the tyrant [1. 396]. Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich) [German version] …
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Moschus
(655 words)
(Μόσχος;
Mόschos). [German version] [1] From Elis, pupil of Phaidon …
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Apollodorus
(3,070 words)
(Ἀπολλόδωρος;
Apollódōros). Political figures [German version] …
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Chaerephon
(141 words)
[German version] (Χαιρεφών;
Chairephṓn). From the Attic deme of Sphettus; from early youth a passionate follower of Socrates. In Aristophanes'
Clouds,
Wasps and
Birds C. is lampooned as an especially zealous and ascetic pupil of Socrates. As a committed democrat, he lived in exile during the tyranny of the Thirty (404-403 BC) (Pl. Ap. 21a). C. was already dead by the time of Socrates' trial (399 BC). Plato (Ap. 20e-21a) and Xenophon (Apol. 14 Xen. Apol. 14) report that C. once asked the oracle at Delphi whether anyone wa…
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Phaedo
(287 words)
[German version] (Φαίδων;
Phaídon) from Elis, b. 418/416 BC, date of death unknown. Title character of the Platonic dialogue
Phaídōn. P. is believed to have been taken prisoner when the city of Elis was conquered, sold a…
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