ENG 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, Patriottentijd
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Eng 2150 writing ii, prof. john lux, class 3. The biography of socrates, son of the statuary sophroniscus and of the midwife. Phaenarete, starts when he was born at athens, not earlier than 471 b. c. nor later than may or. As a youth he received the customary instruction in gymnastics and music; and in after years he made himself acquainted with geometry and astronomy and studied the methods and the doctrines of the leaders of greek thought and culture. He began life as a sculptor; and in the 2nd century a. d. a group of the graces, supposed to be his work, was still to be seen on the road to the acropolis. He was on terms of intimacy with some of the most distinguished of his athenian contemporaries, and, at any rate in later life, was personally known to very many of his fellow citizens. His domestic relations were, it is said unhappy.
