The Three Socratic Fathers of Chion the Tyrannicide

Authors

  • Chr. Gorm Tortzen

Abstract

In the early Imperial epistolary novel Chion’s Letters the main character Chion (375? -353 BC) attends Plato’s Academy in order to become a true philosopher. A reading of the novel makes it clear that the main source for the young man’s development into a philosophical tyrannicide is not inspired by Plato but by Xenophon, who is actually the most influential of his three Socratic fathers.

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2026-08-21

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Tortzen, C. G. (2026). The Three Socratic Fathers of Chion the Tyrannicide. Classica Et Mediaevalia, 809–820. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/170901

Issue

2026: Supplement 4: Tales from A Thousand Cities. Studies in Memory of Mogens Herman Hansen

Section

Varia Historia

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