

Lamprocles
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Male
Family:
Mother:
Xanthippe
Father:
Socrates
The details
Biography
Lamprocles (Greek: Λαμπροκλῆς) was Socrates' and Xanthippe's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was only a boy (μειράκιον meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable: "silly and dull".