Xenocrates

Family: Greek · Role: philosopher · First appears: Flamininus

Flamininus

• with Lycurgus (interaction) “when Lycurgus the orator had rescued Xenocrates the philosopher from the collectors who were hurrying him away to prison”

Comparison of Lucullus with Cimon

• with Lucullus (Lucullus is described in connection with being a follower of Xenocrates.) “did not become the noble Academy, and the follower of Xenocrates, but rather one that inclined to Epicurus.”

Phocion

• pupil: Phocion “as to be first Plato's, and afterwards Xenocrates's scholar in the Academy”
• with Antipater (interaction) “Antipater showed such a want of feeling, and such a dislike of goodness. He saluted everyone else, but would not so much as notice Xenocrates.”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.