Talk:Symposium (Xenophon)

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Why should Lycon father of Autolycus not be "confused" with Lycon Socrates' accusser? Seeing as how nothing is known about Lycon, it seems silly to automatically assume the two Lycon's are not one and the same Furius


 * Why is the assumption that he is the same any less silly? Is there any particular reason to assume that they are the same besides the fact that they share the same name?  Since we don't know anything about Lycon Socrates' accuser,  and since we do know that distinct people can have the same name, isn't it more prudent to assume that these two are distinct until proven otherwise?Isokrates 02:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I've attempted to resolve this issue by adding some actual sources! There is actually a controversy over this matter among scholars.  The article now reflects this.  Isokrates (talk) 15:29, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

On the Xenophon Wiki page, it is stated that most scholars believe Xenophon to have been born around 431 BCE. This article on his Symposium states that it was probably written in 421 BCE, which would have Xenophon writing the Symposium when he was only 10-years old. The two items need to be reconciled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aspirin99 (talk • contribs) 15:26, 13 January 2008 (UTC)