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Menexenus is not to be confused with the character of the same name who appears in Plato's dialogues Menexenus and Lysis. Socrates' sons Menexenus and

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

Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as 40 years

other Athenian boys in the Palaestra, such as is depicted with Lysis and Menexenus, who discuss philosophy with Socrates in the Lysis, but he soon would

Hippothales but is just annoyed by it. Menexenus - Son of Demophon, of the same age as Lysis. Probable namesake of the Menexenus. Socrates finds himself in a wrestling

Menexenus is a genus of stick insects in the family Lonchodidae. The following species are recognised in the genus Menexenus: Menexenus adveniens Brunner

Λαμπροκλῆς) was Socrates' and Xanthippe's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was a youth (μειράκιον meirakion) at the

Amyntichus, Euthias, Lysithides, Aristophanes, Cephalus, Anaxiphemus, and Menexenus, Laërtius, Diogenes. "Socrates, with predecessors and followers: Glaucon" 

of sources for the treaty. For this as the possible date, see Plato, Menexenus, 241d-242a. Ancient sources describing these events include, Diodorus

poisoning Spouse(s) Xanthippe, Myrto (disputed) Children Lamprocles, Menexenus, Sophroniscus Family Sophroniscus (father), Phaenarete (mother), Patrocles