the ledger of connections
The Connections of Socrates
Athenian philosopher whose questioning method founded Western ethics Every person recorded alongside Socrates in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Socrates in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Sophroniscus, Phaenarete
- Spouses
- Xanthippe, Myrto
- Children
- Lamprocles, Menexenus
- Siblings
- Patrocles
- Students
- Plato, Xenophon, Alcibiades, Antisthenes, Aristippus, Isocrates, Euclid of Megara, Phaedo of Elis, Aeschines of Sphettus, Chaerephon, Simmias of Thebes
- Influenced by
- Anaxagoras, Pre-Socratic philosophy, sophist
- Influenced
- Plato, Aristotle, Zeno of Citium, Aristophanes, Karl Popper
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 470 BCE to 399 BCE.
Ancient era
Xerxes I
519 BCE – 465 BCE
Fifth Achaemenid emperor (486–465 BC)
Ancient era
Themistocles
524 BCE – 459 BCE
Athenian politician and general (c. 524–459 BC)
Ancient era
Pericles
494 BCE – 429 BCE
Athenian statesman, orator and general (c. 495 – 429 BC)
Ancient era
Herodotus
484 BCE – 425 BCE
Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)
Ancient era
Thucydides
c. 460 BCE – 395 BCE
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Ancient era
Plato
427 BCE – 347 BCE
Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic
Ancient era
Diogenes of Sinope
412 BCE – 323 BCE
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
Ancient era
Heraclitus
535 BCE – c. 470 BCE
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
Ancient era
Democritus
c. 460 BCE – c. 360 BCE
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
Ancient era
Hippocrates
460 BCE – 370 BCE
Greek physician called the father of medicine
Ancient era
Cincinnatus
519 BCE – c. 430 BCE
Two time Roman dictator
Ancient era
Aeschylus
525 BCE – 456 BCE
Ancient Athenian playwright