Lysis
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the boy's grandfather Lysis · the eldest son of Democrates
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Lysis
A young, handsome Athenian boy, eldest son of Democrates of Aexone, admired by Hippothales and a central interlocutor of Socrates.
Among these was Lysis:
and then I asked Lysis:
a free man controlled by a slave!
Orations
Disciple of Pythagoras whose association with Epaminondas is credited for the latter's success.
And yet formerly he himself, while a hostage in Thebes, associated with Pelopidas, an educated man — so that they said Pelopidas even became his lover — and he both beheld the deeds of Epaminondas and heard his discourses, who not by chance attained so great power among the Greeks and wrought so great a change as to overthrow the Lacedaemonians, who had ruled so long, but by having associated with …
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.