Plutarch's Lives

Socrates

Family: Athens · Role: philosopher · First appears: Pericles

Pericles

  • with Aspasia (interaction) “Socrates himself would sometimes go to visit her”

Alcibiades

  • friends with Alcibiades “the friendship which Socrates felt for him”
  • pupil: Alcibiades “as often as Socrates observed Alcibiades to be misled by luxury or pride, he reduced and corrected him by his addresses, and made him humble and modest”

Aristides

  • with Myrto (interaction) “Myrto, Aristides's granddaughter, lived with Socrates the philosopher, who indeed had another wife, but took her into his house, being a widow, by reason of her indigence, and want of the necessaries of life”
  • with Crito (Crito held money belonging to Socrates at interest.) “but also seventy minae put out at interest with Crito”
  • ward: Myrto “Socrates the philosopher, who indeed had another wife, but took her into his house, being a widow, by reason of her indigence, and want of the necessaries of life”
  • mentor: Aeschines “Thus Aeschines, the scholar of Socrates, writes.”

Nicias

  • friends with Dion “So his friend Dion, when the moon, at the time he was to embark from Zacynthus to go against Dionysius, was eclipsed”

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