Glaucon of Athens was a contemporary philosopher of Socrate.

Biography

Wire of Ariston, young brother of Plato and Adimante, it is one of the principal interlocutors of Socrate in the Republic , in particular:

• Book III, in the exchange where it is question of medicine, which would tend to justify the fact that one finds a character, perhaps the same one, name of Glaucon which Claude Galien in his medical Œuvres quotes - therapeutic method, in Glaucon

• Livre VII, in the exchange on the training of the philosophers illustrated by the Allégorie of the cave.

Works

According to Diogène Laërce would have composed nine dialogs joined together in a volume entitled:

• Phidyle,

• Euripide,
• Amynthicus,
• Euthias,
• Lysithède,
• Aristophane,
• Céphale,
• Anaxiphème,
• Ménexène.

Thirty-two others are allotted to him, but would not be authentic.

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