Menexenus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781006008559)

The Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The speakers are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus. The Menexenus of Plato's dialogue appears also in the Lysis, where he is identified as the "son of Demophon", [1] as well as the Phaedo. The Menexenus consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, referencing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. Socrates here delivers to Menexenus a speech that he claims to have learned from Aspasia, a consort of Pericles and prominent female Athenian intellectual.

Author: Plato
ISBN-10: 1006008551
ISBN-13: 9781006008559
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2024
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.05d