Charmides
historical figure · 7 works · 10 mentions · 18 anchored passages
son of Glaucon · Charmides, son of Aristoteles · Charmides, son of Glaucon · our Charmides
in the texts
Symposium
A participant in the symposium whose remarks mix wit, observation, and pride in poverty.
Indeed I did, said Charmides;
And how about you, Charmides?
What pride, said he, on the contrary, is in my poverty.
Charmides
A strikingly beautiful young Athenian nobleman, cousin and ward of Critias, whom Socrates questions about whether he possesses temperance.
To get your consent, Socrates.
And just as he spoke these words, Charmides entered.
Your answer is a natural one, in my opinion, Charmides;
On the Mysteries
A householder named in the Mysteries information and Andocides' cousin who appeals to him in prison.
Charmides, son of Aristoteles.
In the midst of it all, Charmides, a cousin of my own age who had been brought up with me in my own home since boyhood, said to me:
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 Moral Ends
Epicurean friend of Arcesilas who visited him while he suffered from gout
He, when he was burning with the pains of the gout, and his very intimate friend Charmides the Epicurean had visited him and was going out sad, said:
Orations
Interlocutor of Socrates, subject of the dialogue on temperance
Yet he was also at no loss for other examples on occasion, naming friends and friendship when he conversed with Lysis, and about temperance when conversing with Charmides.
Protagoras
A young Athenian, son of Glaucon, present among Protagoras' company.
on the one side Callias, son of Hipponicus and his brother on the mother’s side, Paralus, son of Pericles, and Charmides, son of Glaucon, while the other troop consisted of Pericles’ other son Xanthippus, Philippides, son of Philomelus, and Antimoerus of Mende, who is the most highly reputed of Protagoras’ disciples and is taking the course professionally with a view to becoming a sophist.
Symposium
Son of Glaucon, named as another young man deceived by Socrates' manner of loving.
there are Charmides, son of Glaucon, Euthydemus, son of Diocles, and any number of others who have found his way of loving so deceitful that he might rather be their favorite than their lover.