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']
158a
br>* 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 first wife in the late 440s;
he had a son from this marriage, Demus, who was famous for his beauty.
[Plato, ''Gorgias']
481d
an
513b
br>* Aristophanes, ''Wasps''
97
/ref> Around 423 BC, Pyrilampes was widowed and so was free to marry his niece, Perictione, Plato's mother. Perictione gave birth to Pyrilampes' second son, Antiphon, the half-brother of Plato, who appears in ''Parmenides (Plato), Parmenides'' in which he is said to have given up philosophy to devote most of his time to horses.[Plato, ''Parmenides']
126c
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5th-century BC Athenians
Family of Plato
5th-century BC births
5th-century BC deaths
Ambassadors in Greek Antiquity