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Pyrilampes was an ancient Athenian politician and stepfather of the philosopher Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
. His dates of birth and death are unknown; according to estimations of Debra Nails he must have been born after 480 BC, and he must have died before 413 BC.

Pyrilampes had served many times as an ambassador to the Persian court
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 and was a friend of Pericles
Pericles

Pericles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of History of Athens during the city's Age of Pericles?specifically, the time between the Greco-Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War wars....
, the leader of the democratic faction in Athens. He was injured at the Battle of Delium
Battle of Delium

The Battle of Delium or of Delion took place in 424 BC between the Athens and the Boeotians, and ended with the siege of Delium in the following weeks....
 in 424 BC, when he was in his mid-fifties.






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Pyrilampes was an ancient Athenian politician and stepfather of the philosopher Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
. His dates of birth and death are unknown; according to estimations of Debra Nails he must have been born after 480 BC, and he must have died before 413 BC.

Pyrilampes had served many times as an ambassador to the Persian court
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 and was a friend of Pericles
Pericles

Pericles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of History of Athens during the city's Age of Pericles?specifically, the time between the Greco-Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War wars....
, the leader of the democratic faction in Athens. He was injured at the Battle of Delium
Battle of Delium

The Battle of Delium or of Delion took place in 424 BC between the Athens and the Boeotians, and ended with the siege of Delium in the following weeks....
 in 424 BC, when he was in his mid-fifties. Pyrilampes raised and showed peacocks, gifts he had received on his Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
n embassies. Plutarch states accusations against Pyrilampes, according to which he used the peacocks to procure freeborn women for Pericles.

Pyrilampes appears to have married his first wife in the late 440s; he had a son from this marriage, Demus, who was famous for his beauty. C. 423 BC Pyrilampes had been widowed, and he was free to marry his niece, Perictione
Perictione

Perictione, or Perikt?one, was the Greek mother of Plato. She was a descendant of Solon, the Athenian lawgiver. She was married to Ariston , and had three sons ? Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Plato ? and a daughter, Potone....
, Plato's mother. Perictione gave birth to Pyrilampes' second son, Antiphon, the half-brother of Plato, who appears in Parmenides
Parmenides (Plato)

Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is perhaps Plato's most challenging dialogue.The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates....
, where he is said to have given up philosophy, in order to devote most of his time to horses.

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