Lamprocles

Lamprokles (c. 416 BC; † after 399 BC ) was one of three sons of the Greek philosopher Socrates ( 469 BC *, † 399 BC). While Lamprokles from the marriage of Socrates emerged ( with the proverbial difficult and quarrelsome shrew ), come the other two sons of the thinker, Sophroniscus and Menexenos, possibly from an existing parallel connection with Myrto, an impoverished widow who had taken Socrates to his house (You may also extramarital children were recognized as legitimate at the time of the Peloponnesian War, Athens ). Lamprokles grew up with his brothers in Alopeke at Athens, where his father had a small estate.

The historian Xenophon handed in his " Memorabilia " a dialogue between Socrates and Lamprokles in which Socrates endeavored to bring his son to his quarrelsome and harsh mother Xanthippe despite its hard to bear graces the required and expected of Religion and Society gratitude to testify. About the later life of the Lamprokles no details are known.

Swell

• Xenophon: "Memories of Socrates ". ( " Memorabilia ", Book II, 2, 1-14).