Cebes
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 13 anchored passages
in the texts
Phaedo
A pupil of Philolaus, present at Socrates' death, who raises the central objections that structure the philosophical argument about death and the soul.
And besides, Cebes rejoined, if it is true, Socrates, as you are fond of saying, that our learning is nothing else than recollection, then this would be an additional argument that we must necessarily have learned in some previous time what we now remember.
Here Cebes interrupted and said, By Zeus, Socrates, I am glad you reminded me.
Several others have asked about the poems you have composed, the metrical versions of Aesop’s fables and the hymn to Apollo, and Evenus asked me the day before yesterday why you never wrote any poetry before, composed these verses after you came to prison.
Stromata
Interlocutor in Plato's Phaedo, addressed in the quoted passage.
"Great is Greece, O Cebes, in which there are everywhere good men, and many too are the races of the barbarians.
Crito
A friend, along with Simmias, ready to provide funds for Socrates' escape
and Cebes also and very many others are ready.
Memorabilia
Theban companion of Socrates named in the joking account of attraction.
And why do Cebes and Simmias come to me from Thebes?