Pyrilampes was an ancient Athens ancient Athenian politician and stepfather of the philosopher Plato . His dates of birth and death are unknown according to estimations of Debra Nails he must have been born after 480 BC, and he must have died before 413 BC. ref name NA257 258 D. Nails, Pyrilampes , 257 258 ref Pyrilampes had 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. ref name PP Plato, Charmides , http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0176&query section 3D 23376&layout &loc Charm. 20157e 158a br Plutarch, Pericles , s Lives Pericles 13 IV ref He was injured at the Battle of Delium in 424 BC, when he was in his mid fifties. ref name NA258 D. Nails, Pyrilampes , 258 ref Pyrilampes raised and showed peacock s, gifts he had received on his Asia n embassies. Plutarch states accusations against Pyrilampes, according to which he used the peacocks to procure freeborn women for Pericles. ref name P13 Plutarch, Pericles , s Lives Pericles 13 IV ref Pyrilampes appears to have married his first wife in the late 440s ref name NA258 he had a son from this marriage, Demus , who was famous for his beauty. ref Plato, Gorgias , http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0178 query section 3D 23620 layout loc Gorg. 20481c 481d and http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0178 query section 3D 23778 layout ... cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0044 query card 3D 233 layout loc 54 97 ref C. 423 BC Pyrilampes ... gave birth to Pyrilampes second son, Antiphon, the half brother of Plato, who appears in Parmenides ... year 2002 publisher Hackett Publishing id ISBN 0 872 20564 9 chapter Pyrilampes Cite wikisource ... Pyrilampes ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH ... de Pyrilampes is P rilampes ... more details
Perictione or Periktione lang el 5th century BC was the mother of the Greek philosopher Plato . She was a descendant of Solon , the Athenian lawgiver. ref Diogenes La rtius, iii. 1 ref She was married to Ariston of Athens Ariston , and had three sons Glaucon , Adeimantus of Collytus Adeimantus , and Plato and a daughter, Potone . ref Diogenes La rtius, iii. 4 ref 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 dialogue Parmenides . ref cite book author Plato title Republic year 1992 others trans. G. M. A. Grube publisher Hackett location Indianapolis isbn 0 87220 137 6 page viii ref Two spurious works attributed to Perictione have survived in fragments. These are 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 . ref name waithe Mary Ellen Waithe, A History of Women Philosophers Volume 1, 600 BC 500 AD , Springer. ref Both works belong to the pseudonym ous Pythagoreanism Pythagorean literature. On the Harmony of Women , concerns the duties of a woman to her husband , her marriage , and to her parent s it is written in Ionic Greek , and probably dates to the late 4th or 3rd century BC. ref name plant76 Ian Michael Plant, Women writers of ancient Greece and Rome An anthology , University of Oklahoma Press 2004 , p. 76. ref On Wisdom offers a philosophical definition of wisdom it is written in Doric Greek , and probably dates to the 3rd or 2nd century BC. ref name plant76 Sources reflist External links s Political fragments of Archytas and other ancient Pythagoreans From the treatise of Perictyone on the duties of a woman From the treatise of Perictyone &ndash On the Duties of a Woman . Translated by Thomas Taylor neoplatonist Thomas Taylor , published 1822, at Wikisource s Political fragments of Archytas and other ancient Pythagoreans ... more details
Other people2 Ariston disambiguation Ariston of Collytus, 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. ref Diogenes La rtius, iii. 1 ref Diogenes La rtius 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. ref Diogenes La rtius, iii. 2 ref Ariston died when Plato was still a boy, and his mother Perictione remarried Pyrilampes , a friend of the Athenian politician Pericles . ref name Ariston1 Plato, The Republic , Trans. G.M.A. Grube, Cambridge Hackett, 1992. viii ref Ariston had three other children by Perictione Glaucon , Adeimantus of Collytus Adeimantus , and Potone . ref Diogenes La rtius, iii. 4 ref Notes reflist References ws Diogenes La rtius , s Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book III Life of Plato , translated by Robert Drew Hicks 1925 DEFAULTSORT Ariston Category Ancient Athenians Category People related to Plato Category 5th century BC Greek people Category 424 BC deaths Category Year of birth unknown de Ariston Platon el es Arist n de Atenas eu Ariston Atenastarra is Ariston nl Ariston Plato pnb ... more details
independence of women, and, therefore Perictione was given to marriage to Pyrilampes , her mother ... 3Atext 3A1999.01.0176 158a br Plutarch, Pericles , s Lives Pericles 13 IV ref Pyrilampes had ... 3Atext 3A1999.01.0044 97 ref Perictione gave birth to Pyrilampes second son, Antiphon, the half ... more details
The following is a list of the speakers found in the Platonic dialogues dialogues traditionally ascribed to Plato . Dialogues, as well as Platonic Epistles Plato Epistles and Epigrams Plato Epigrams , in which these individuals appear dramatically but do not speak are listed separately. class class wikitable sortable border 1 style background e3e3e3 Name style background e3e3e3 Speaker style background e3e3e3 Role style background e3e3e3 Mentioned style background e3e3e3 Notes Adeimantus of Collytus Adeimantus of Collytus, son of Ariston of Athens Ariston Parmenides dialogue Parmenides , Republic Plato Republic speaker Apology Plato Apology Agathon of Athens , son of Tisamenus Symposium Plato Symposium speaker Protagoras dialogue Protagoras Epigrams Plato Epigram 6 Alcibiades of Scambonidae, son of Cleinias Clinias First Alcibiades Alcibiades , Second Alcibiades II Alcibiades , Protagoras dialogue Protagoras , Symposium Plato Symposium speaker Euthydemus dialogue Euthydemus , Gorgias dialogue Gorgias Antiphon person Antiphon of Athens , son of Pyrilampes Parmenides dialogue Parmenides indirect speaker Anytus of Enonymon, son of Anthemion Meno speaker Apology Plato Apology Apollodorus of Phaleron Apollodorus of Faliro Phaleron Symposium Plato Symposium narrator, speaker Apology Plato Apology , Phaedo Aristides of Alopece, son of Lysimachus Laches dialogue Laches , Theages speaker, remembered speaker Theaetetus dialogue Theaetetus Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum Symposium Plato Symposium narrator, speaker Aristophanes of Cydatheneum, son of Philippus Symposium Plato Symposium speaker Apology Plato Apology Epigrams Plato Epigram 18 Aristotle of Thorae, son of Timocrates Parmenides dialogue Parmenides speaker Aspasia of Miletus , daughter of Axiochus Menexenus dialogue Menexenus quoted speaker Axiochus of Scambonidae, son of Alcibiades Axiochus dialogue Axiochus speaker Euthydemus dialogue Euthydemus Callias III Callias of Alopece, son of Hipponi ... more details
Pyrilampes , her mother s brother, ref name NA229 Plato, Charmides , http www.perseus.tufts.edu ... 13 IV ref Pyrilampes had a son from a previous marriage, Demus, who was famous for his beauty. ref Plato ... card 3D 233 layout loc 54 97 ref Perictione gave birth to Pyrilampes second son, Antiphon, the half ... more details
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