Cebes of Thebes
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- Name:
- Cebes of Thebes
- Abbr:
- Ceb.
- Alt names:
- Κέβης
Cebes, Philosophus
Cebes, Thebanus
Cebes, de Tebes
Kebes, Thebaios
Cébès, de Thèbes
Kebes, von Thebes
Cebete, Tebano
Kevit, of Thebes
T͡Sebes, of Thebes
Kivit, of Thebes
Cebes, Philosophus
Ceb.
- Field of activity:
- Philosopher
- Notes:
- TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition,
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol , 1867, p. 1:
Brill's New Pauly: "Cebes, from Thebes, Friend of Socrates (Pl. Crit. 45b
Xen. Mem. 1,2,48
3,11,17)
together with his companion
Simmias Socrates' main interlocutor in Plato's ‘Phaedon’.....The dialogue entitled Pínax and falsely attributed to C. was probably written during the 1st cent. AD
the first author to attest to it is Lucian (De Mercede Conductis 42
Rhetorum Praeceptor 6). In the dialogue, an anonymous speaker reports how in a sanctuary of
Cronus a likewise anonymous old man explained to him a painting on display there, representing in allegorical form the false and the correct path in life...."
Döring, Klaus (Bamberg). "Cebes." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and
Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2011. Brill Online. Tufts University Library. 03 October 2011
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