Protarchus
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 15 anchored passages
Pro. · son of Callias · the son of Callias
in the texts
Philebus
Young associate of Philebus who takes over defense of the argument's structure after Philebus withdraws, serving as Socrates' chief interlocutor for most of the passage.
for our handsome Philebus has withdrawn.
Every one will prefer this life to either of the two others—yes, every single person without exception.
You, Socrates, have granted to all of us this conversation and your cooperation for the purpose of determining what is the best of human possessions.
Orations
A figure who claimed to be the enslaved-and-returned son of Callias, disputing his inheritance, though the narrator suggests he was actually an imposter groom who resembled Callias's son.
"Since even the son of Callias was held to have served a long time in Thrace, after the battle in which the Athenians were defeated about Acanthus;
For if an Athenian, taken in war, be carried off to the Persians, or, by Zeus, be brought to Thrace or Sicily and sold, we shall say that, being free, he is a slave;
But the son of Callias, if indeed he was really saved, having been taken captive then, coming from Thrace, after having been there many years and often scourged—no one would think fit to drive him from the citizenship;