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Ariston Of Athens
Ariston of Collytus ( grc-gre, Ἀρίστων; died c. 424 BC), was the father of the Greek philosopher Plato (originally named Aristocles). Legend holds that he was descended from Codrus, the ancient king of Athens. He supposedly could trace his ancestry to the God of the sea Poseidon through Codrus and Melanthus.Diogenes Laertius Plato 1 Diogenes Laërtius on the authority of Speusippus and others, relates a story that "Ariston made violent love to Perictione, then in her bloom, and failed to win her; and that, when he ceased to offer violence, Apollo appeared to him in a dream, whereupon he left her unmolested until her child was born". Ariston died when Plato was still a boy, and his mother Perictione remarried Pyrilampes, a friend of the Athenian politician Pericles.Plato, ''The Republic'', Trans. G.M.A. Grube, Cambridge: Hackett, 1992. viii Ariston had three other children by Perictione: Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Potone Potone (; grc-gre, Πωτώνη, Pōtṓnē; born befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ἀρίστων
Ariston (from el, ) may refer to: People Ancient Greece * Ariston of Sparta (6th century BC), Eurypontid King of Sparta * Ariston of Athens (died circa 424 BC), father of Plato * Ariston of Byzantium (), tyrant of the city of Byzantium * Ariston of Paionia (4th century BC), Paionian prince, cavalry commander of Alexander the Great * Ariston (king of Paionia) (3rd century BC), Paionian king * Ariston (painter) (4th century BC), probably of Thebes * Ariston (strategos) (), Aetolian military leader * Ariston (hero), the protagonist of the 1967 historical novel ''Goat Song'' * Ariston (actor), actor at the Susa weddings Early Christians * Ariston (bishop), Ariston of Smyrna, Bishop in the late 1st century, Companion of John the Elder * Aristo of Pella, Ariston of Pella, 2nd century apologist quoted by Eusebius Modern * Jose Ariston Caslib (born 1968), current manager of the Philippine national football team Other uses * Ariston, a brand of thermal comfort products manufactured by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrilampes
Pyrilampes ( grc-gre, wikt:Πυριλάμπης, Πυριλάμπης) was an Ancient Athens, ancient Athenian politician and stepfather of the philosopher Plato. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but Debra Nails estimates he must have been born after 480 BC and died before 413 BC.D. Nails, "Pyrilampes", 257–258 Career Pyrilampes served many times as an ambassador to the Achaemenid Empire, Persian court and was a friend of Pericles, the leader of the democratic faction in Athens.Plato, ''Charmides'158abr>* Plutarch, ''Pericles'', s:Lives/Pericles#13, IV He was injured at the Battle of Delium in 424 BC, when he was in his mid-fifties.D. Nails, "Pyrilampes", 258 Pyrilampes raised and showed peacocks, gifts he had received on his Asian embassies. Plutarch states accusations against Pyrilampes, according to which he used the peacocks to procure freeborn women for Pericles.Plutarch, ''Pericles'', s:Lives/Pericles#13, IV Personal life Pyrilampes appears to have married his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
424 BC Deaths
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Family Of Plato
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5th-century BC Athenians
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Potone
Potone (; grc-gre, Πωτώνη, Pōtṓnē; born before 427 BC) daughter of Ariston and Perictione, was Plato's older sister. Her mother was Perictione and she was born in Collytus, just outside Athens. She married Eurymedon of Myrrhinus, with whom she had Speusippus.Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 1 Roger Scruton Sir Roger Vernon Scruton (; 27 February 194412 January 2020) was an English philosopher and writer who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views. Editor from 1982 t ...'s mock Platonic dialogue, ''Perictione in Colophon'', introduces a daughter of Potone, Perictione. References * * * 5th-century BC births Year of death unknown 5th-century BC Athenians Ancient Athenian women Family of Plato Year of birth uncertain 5th-century BC Greek women {{AncientGreece-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeimantus Of Collytus
Adeimantus of Collytus ( el, Ἀδείμαντος; c. 432 BC – 382 BC),Debra Nails, ''The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics''. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2002 son of Ariston of Athens, was an ancient Athenian Greek best known as Plato's brother. He plays an important part in Plato's ''Republic'' and is mentioned in the '' Apology'' and ''Parmenides'' dialogues. In the ''Republic'', Adeimantus is noted for his concern for education, which is apparent from the moment he becomes involved in the discussion. He is also concerned with the happiness of the auxiliaries in the ideal city.Plato, ''Republic'', 4.419a He questions whether they would be living a good life with little or no personal property. Consequently, Adeimantus is often associated with greed or love for money in interpretations of the dialogue. On the whole, Adeimantus comes across as more cautious, more sober-minded, and less creative than his brother Glaucon, Socrates' other majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glaucon
Glaucon (; el, Γλαύκων; c. 445 BC – 4th century BC), son of Ariston, was an ancient Athenian and Plato's older brother. He is primarily known as a major conversant with Socrates in the ''Republic''. He is also referenced briefly in the beginnings of two dialogues of Plato, the ''Parmenides'' and ''Symposium''. Glaucon also appears in Xenophon's ''Memorabilia'', and is referenced in Aristotle's ''Poetics'', where Aristotle states: "The true mode of interpretation is the precise opposite of what Glaucon mentions. Critics, he says, jump at certain groundless conclusions; they pass adverse judgement and then proceed to reason on it; and, assuming that the poet has said whatever they happen to think, find fault if a thing is inconsistent with their own fancy."Aristotle, ''Poetics'', 11.2 See also *List of speakers in Plato's dialogues following is a list of the speakers found in the dialogues traditionally ascribed to Plato, including extensively quoted, indirect and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pericles
Pericles (; grc-gre, Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens".Thucydides, 2.65 Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", but the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars or as late as the following century. Pericles promoted the arts and literature, and it is principally through his efforts that Athens acquired the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo
Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label=genitive, , ; , is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the ''kouros'' (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as ''Apulu''. As the patron deity of Delphi (''Apollo Pythios''), Apollo is an oracul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perictione
Perictione ( grc-gre, Περικτιόνη ''Periktiónē''; fl. 5th century BC) was the mother of the Greek philosopher Plato. She was a descendant of Solon, the Athenian lawgiver. Her illustrious family goes back to Dropides, archon of the year 644 b.c. She was married to Ariston, and had three sons (Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Plato) and a daughter (Potone). After Ariston's death, she remarried Pyrilampes, an Athenian statesman and her uncle. She had her fifth child, Antiphon, with Pyrilampes. Antiphon appears in Plato's ''Parmenides''. Two spurious works attributed to Perictione have survived in fragments, ''On the Harmony of Women'' and ''On Wisdom''. The works do not date from the same time and are usually assigned to a Perictione I and a Perictione II.Mary Ellen Waithe, ''A History of Women Philosophers: Volume 1, 600 BC-500 AD'', Springer. This assignment makes it seem evident that perhaps either one or neither were actually composed by this Perictione. Both works are pseudo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
