Ischomachus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages
he · plain Ischomachus, my father’s son
in the texts
Economics
Ischomachus is introduced as a man widely reputed to be a gentleman, whom Socrates decided to meet.
Accordingly, since I heard the name applied to Ischomachus by men, women, citizens and strangers alike, I decided to meet him, if I could.
said my wife.
asked my wife.
On the Mysteries
Father of a woman married by Callias.
Callias married a daughter of Ischomachus;
Stromata
Named as exemplary teacher of husbandry.
And just as, if a man attend to Ischomachus, he will make him a husbandman, and Lampis a shipmaster, and Charidemus a general, and Simon a horseman, and Perdix a huckster, and Crobylus a cook, and Archelaus a dancer, and Homer a poet, and Pyrrho a wrangler, and Demosthenes an orator, and Chrysippus a logician, and Aristotle a natural philosopher, and Plato a philosopher;