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characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis and therefore, after the initial

the Palaestra, such as is depicted with Lysis and Menexenus, who discuss philosophy with Socrates in the Lysis, but he soon would become a member of Socrates'

(dialogue), a dialogue of Plato about friendship (philia) Lysis of Taras (fl. c. 5th century BCE), Greek philosopher Lysis, one of the stages of the lytic

theory of love is mostly deduced from Lysis, where Socrates discusses love at a wrestling school in the company of Lysis and his friends. They start their

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

outside his appearance in the Lysis and Euthydemus. Menexenus, son of Demophon: A follower of Socrates, he is a speaker in the Lysis and in the Menexenus, which

the fourth century BC. The earliest ones are preserved in the works of Plato and Xenophon and all involve Socrates as the protagonist. These dialogues

Zeyl translation. Indianapolis: Hackett. James H. Nichols Jr., 1998 Plato: Lysis, Symposium, Gorgias. Greek with translation by W. R. M. Lamb. Loeb Classical

following is a partial list of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues. The traditional division of the works of Plato into tetralogies was done by Thrasyllus of

and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction