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The Charmides (/ ˈ k ɑːr m ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance," "self-control," or "restraint." When the boy is unable to ...
Charmides (/ ˈ k ɑːr m ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Χαρμίδης), son of Glaucon, born circa 446 BC, was an Athenian statesman. [1] An uncle of Plato, Charmides appears in the Platonic dialogue bearing his name (), the Protagoras, and the Symposium, as well as in Xenophon's Symposium, Memorabilia, and Hellenica. [2]
Charmides, a Greek youth, disembarks from the ship which has brought him back from Syracuse, and climbs up to his native village in the Greek mountains where there is a shrine dedicated to Athena. He hides himself and, unnoticed by the priest and local rustics, watches while offerings are made to the goddess, until with nightfall he is left alone.
Charmadas (Greek: Χαρμάδας; also Charmides (Χαρμίδης); 168/7 – 103/91 BC) [1] was a Greek academic skeptic philosopher and a disciple of Carneades at the Academy in Athens. He was famous for his elegant style. [2] Charmadas introduced the teaching of rhetoric into the Academy and is said to have had many students. [2]
Homer greatly influenced Greek literature as a whole. [4] Plato refers to the two gates in his dialogue Charmides: Socrates: "Listen then," I said, "to my dream, to see whether it comes through horn or through ivory." [5] A reference to the Odyssean image also appears in the late (c. AD 400) epic poet Nonnus:
Charmides reproaches Callicles, but Callicles defends himself to Charmides' satisfaction. Charmides sends Stasimus to the port to bring his luggage, and goes inside with Callicles. Act 5.1 (1115–1119): anapaestic quaternarii (5 lines) Lysiteles arrives, singing of his happiness. Act 5.1 (cont.)–5.2 (1120–1189): trochaic septenarii (70 lines)
Henri Estienne's 1578 edition of Euthyphro, parallel Latin and Greek text.. Euthyphro (/ ˈ juː θ ɪ f r oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Εὐθύφρων, romanized: Euthyphrōn; c. 399–395 BC), by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. [1]
Adeimantus, along with Alcibiades, and Axiochus, was accused by Agariste, the wife of Alcaemonides, of doing so at the house of Charmides (Plato's uncle). [3] Alcibiades had been one of the three men elected to lead the expedition, [4] and rather than delay it to fully investigate the charges, the city let him go for the time being. [5] It is ...