Menexenus (; el, Μενέξενоς) was one of the three sons of
Socrates and
Xanthippe. His two brothers were
Lamprocles and Sophroniscus. Menexenus is not to be confused with the character of the same name who appears in
Plato's dialogues
''Menexenus'' and
''Lysis''. Socrates' sons Menexenus and Sophroniscus were still children at the time of their father's
trial and death, one of them small enough to be held in his mother's arms. According to
Aristotle, Socrates' descendants all turned out to be unremarkable "fools and dullards".
[Aristotle. '']Rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
'', Book 2 Chapter 1
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