Adeimantus
historical figure · 11 works · 21 mentions · 32 anchored passages
he · Adeimantus the Corinthian · Glaucon's brother · dear Adeimantus · he replied · his brother · son of Ariston · that Adeimantus · the brother of Glaucon
in the texts
Republic
Brother of Glaucon, present among the group that detains Socrates.
Do you mean to say, interposed Adeimantus, that you haven’t heard that there is to be a torchlight race this evening on horseback in honor of the Goddess?
So we will, said Glaucon, and shortly after Polemarchus came up and Adeimantus, the brother of Glaucon, and Niceratus, the son of Nicias, and a few others apparently from the procession.
When Glaucon had thus spoken, I had a mind to make some reply thereto, but his brother Adeimantus said, You surely don’t suppose, Socrates, that the statement of the case is complete?
Hellenica
One of two Athenians chosen as replacement generals after the people at home depose the generals following Arginusae.
and as his colleagues they chose two men, Adeimantus and Philocles.
Many other stories were told, and it was finally resolved to put to death all of the prisoners who were Athenians, with the exception of Adeimantus, because he was the one man who in the Athenian Assembly had opposed the decree in regard to cutting off the hands of captives;
As for Lysander, he took his prizes and prisoners and everything else back to Lampsacus, the prisoners including Philocles, Adeimantus, and some of the other generals.
On the Mysteries
A person accused by Agariste of celebrating Mysteries in Charmides' house.
According to the wife of Alcmaeonides—she had previously been married to Damon and was named Agariste—according, as I say, to Alcmaeonides’ wife, Alcibiades, Axiochus, and Adeimantus celebrated Mysteries in Charmides’ house, next to the Olympieum.
On the False Embassy
General denounced by Conon after joint service.
and long ago Conon denounced Adeimantus after serving with him as general.
Orations
Corinthian general credited by Simonides' epigram with counsel that helped secure Greek freedom, whose reputation Herodotus is accused of distorting.
This is the tomb of that Adeimantus, through whose counsels Greece put on the crown of freedom.
But failing of this too — for your ancestors did not think fit to buy reputation — he recast those things which we all know, the matters about Salamis and Adeimantus.
Vitae philosophorum
Brother of Plato, and a beneficiary (or namesake relative) named in Plato's will.
He had two brothers, Adeimantus and Glaucon, and a sister, Potone, who was the mother of Speusippus.
this it shall be unlawful for anyone to sell or alienate, but it shall be the property of the boy Adeimantus to all intents and purposes:
The Histories
Corinthian naval commander who clashes with Themistocles before the battle and is later accused (by Athenian tradition) of fleeing at the outset of the fighting.
As Themistocles said this, Adeimantus the Corinthian attacked him again, advising that a man without a city should keep quiet and that Eurybiades should not ask the vote of a man without a city.
The Athenians say that when the ships joined battle, the Corinthian general Adeimantus, struck with bewilderment and terror, hoisted his sails and fled away.
The Athenians spread this rumor about them, but the Corinthians do not agree at all, and they consider themselves to have been among the foremost in the battle.
Against Alcibiades 1
An Athenian commander who joined the father in surrendering the fleet to Lysander.
Finally, gentlemen, he outdid his former villainy by daring, with Adeimantus, to surrender the ships to Lysander.
Parmenides
Brother of Glaucon who greets Cephalus on his arrival in Athens and helps identify Antiphon as the source of the story.
Adeimantus took me by the hand and said, Welcome, Cephalus if there is anything we can do for you here, let us know.
Antiphon.
Tell us, said he, what it is.
Alcibiades
One of the Athenian generals commanding the fleet at Aegospotami.
Tydeus, Menander, and Adeimantus, the generals, who had all the ships which the Athenians could finally muster in station at Aegospotami, were wont to sail out at daybreak against Lysander, who lay with his fleet at Lampsacus, and challenge him to battle.
Themistocles
Archon named on the tablet commemorating Themistocles' choregic victory.
And still again, as choregus, or theatrical manager, he won a victory with tragedies, although even at that early time this contest was conducted with great eagerness and ambition and set up a tablet commemorating his victory with the following inscription: