Charmides
historical figure · 7 works · 9 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Charmides, son of Aristoteles · Charmides, son of Glaucon · Charmides, the son of Glaucon · Glaucon's son · our Charmides
in the texts
Symposium
A participant in the symposium whose remarks mix wit, observation, and pride in poverty.
It looks to me, said Charmides, as if you were puffing the dancing-master.
Don’t you know that just the other day Charmides here caught me dancing early in the morning?
But on catching sight of a group comprising Socrates, Critobulus, Hermogenes, Antisthenes, and Charmides, Callias bade one of his servants escort Autolycus and the others, and himself going over to Socrates and his companions, said,
On the Mysteries
A householder named in the Mysteries information and Andocides' cousin who appeals to him in prison.
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.
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:
Charmides, son of Aristoteles.
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.
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.
Hellenica
An Athenian, son of Glaucon, killed fighting on the city's side in the battle of Munichia.
In this battle fell two of the Thirty, Critias and Hippomachus, one of the Ten who ruled in Piraeus, Charmides, the son of Glaucon, and about seventy of the others.
Memorabilia
A capable and respected Athenian, described as 'Glaucon's son,' who nonetheless shrinks from speaking in the Assembly and taking part in politics despite giving excellent private advice to public men.
Seeing that Glaucon’s son, Charmides, was a respectable man and far more capable than the politicians of the day, and nevertheless shrank from speaking in the assembly and taking a part in politics, he said:
Then if a man were to shrink from state business though capable of discharging it with advantage to the state and honour to himself, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think him a coward?
A private conversation is a very different thing from a crowded debate, Socrates.