Eryximachus
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Eryximachus, son of Acumenus · Son of Acumenus · son of Acumenus
in the texts
Symposium
A physician among the banquet guests who proposes the format of speeches praising Love and delivers the third speech, extending the theme of the double Love to medicine and the cosmos.
The Speech of Eryximachus
Then Eryximachus spoke as follows:
Eryximachus proposes the Theme of Love
On the Mysteries
A person denounced by Teucrus in the Hermae matter.
Euctemon, Glaucippus, Eurymachus, Polyeuctus, Plato, Antidorus, Charippus, Theodorus, Alcisthenes, Menestratus, Eryximachus, Euphiletus, Eurydamas, Pherecles, Meletus, Timanthes, Archidamus, Telenicus.
Against Boeotus II
Husband of the speaker's maternal aunt, used as evidence for comparable dowry size.
Secondly, it has been proved to you by witnesses that her sister brought a dowry of the like amount when she married Eryximachus, the brother-in-law of Chabrias.
Phaedrus
A physician named as a hypothetical interlocutor in Socrates's analogy about a man who falsely claims medical expertise.
and because of this knowledge I claim that I am a physician and can make any other man a physician, to whom I impart the knowledge of these things;
Protagoras
An Athenian seated among those questioning Hippias.
and sitting around him on benches were Eryximachus, son of Acumenus, Phaedrus of Myrrhinous, Andron son of Androtion and a number of strangers,—fellow-citizens of Hippias and some others.