Figure
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
- Child of Sophroniscus and Phaenarete
- Married to Xanthippe, Myrto
- Dated c. 470 BCE – 15 February 399 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Socrates
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 7
Family 7
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Phaenarete mother of Socrates
- child of (father) Sophroniscus sculptor and father of Socrates
- parent of (child) Lamprocles son of Socrates
- parent of (child) Menexenus Son of Socrates and Xanthippe
- sibling of Patrocles half-brother of Socrates
- married to Myrto Socrates's wife according to some accounts
- married to Xanthippe ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Socrates 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher 
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Socrates connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 6
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
25 statements on this record
- 24 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 1 Disputed The source records a disagreement, and the disagreement is kept rather than resolved.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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