Anaxagoras
Family: Athens · Role: philosopher · First appears: Themistocles
Themistocles
- with Themistocles (interaction) “Stesimbrotus says that Themistocles was a hearer of Anaxagoras”
- pupil: Themistocles “Stesimbrotus says that Themistocles was a hearer of Anaxagoras”
Pericles
- pupil: Pericles “Nor were these the only advantages which Pericles derived from Anaxagoras's acquaintance; he seems also to have become, by his instructions, superior to that superstition”
- admirer: Pericles “For this man, Pericles entertained an extraordinary esteem and admiration”
- with Diopithes (interaction) “And Diopithes proposed a decree, that public accusation should be laid against persons who neglected religion, or taught new doctrines about things above, directing suspicion, by means of Anaxagoras, against Pericles himself.”
- friends with Pericles “For this man, Pericles entertained an extraordinary esteem and admiration”
- guardian: Pericles “And finding that in Phidias's case he had miscarried with the people, being afraid of impeachment, he kindled the war”
Nicias
- patron: Pericles “so that Pericles had much difficulty to procure his liberty”
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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.