What happened to Socrates sons?

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”.

Does Socrates have any children?

Lamprocles
MenexenusSophroniscus
Socrates/Children

Socrates married Xanthippe, a younger woman, who bore him three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus.

Are there descendants of Socrates?

Socrates/Descendants

Who were Socrates sons?

Socrates/Sons

What did Socrates do with boys?

While he was physically attracted to both sexes, as was common and accepted in ancient Greece, he resisted his passion for young men because, as Plato describes, he was more interested in educating their souls. Socrates did not seek sex from his disciples, as was often the case between older and younger men in Athens.

Are we all related to Confucius?

The common ancestor for every single person alive on the planet today, no matter where, lived approximately 3,600 years ago. That means Confucius, Nefertiti, Socrates, and any figure from ancient history that had children, is in some way your ancestor. Each generation back the number of ancestors you have doubles.

Did Aristotle have a child?

Nicomachus
Pythias
Aristotle/Children

Who were Aristotle’s parents?

Phaestis
Aristotle/Parents
His father was Nicomachus, a medical doctor, while his mother was named Phaestis. Nicomachus was certainly living in Chalcidice when Aristotle was born and he had probably been born in that region. Aristotle’s mother, Phaestis, came from Chalcis in Euboea and her family owned property there.

Did Descartes marry?

Descartes never married, but he fathered a child in 1635 with Helena Jans van der Strom.

Who was Aristotle’s wife?

Pythias
Aristotle/Wife
Aristotle married Pythias, the niece and adopted daughter of Hermias, and they had one child, a daughter also called Pythias. However, Aristotle’s wife died about 10 years after their marriage.

What did Socrates do before he became a philosopher?

Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, an Athenian stonemason and sculptor, and Phaenarete, a midwife. Because he wasn’t from a noble family, he probably received a basic Greek education and learned his father’s craft at a young age. It’s believed Socrates worked as mason for many years before he devoted his life to philosophy.

Did Socrates work as a mason before he devoted his life?

It’s believed Socrates worked as mason for many years before he devoted his life to philosophy. Contemporaries differ in their account of how Socrates supported himself as a philosopher.

Did Socrates flee into exile or accept this judgment?

He accepted this judgment rather than fleeing into exile. Born circa 470 B.C. in Athens, Greece, Socrates’s life is chronicled through only a few sources: the dialogues of Plato and Xenophon and the plays of Aristophanes. Because these writings had other purposes than reporting his life, it is likely none present a completely accurate picture.

What happened to Athens during Socrates’ life?

During Socrates’ life, Athens was going through a dramatic transition from hegemony in the classical world to its decline after a humiliating defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Athenians entered a period of instability and doubt about their identity and place in the world.