person
Speusippus
Plato's nephew and successor as head of the Academy; Plato, recognizing his own anger, handed him the task of punishing a slave.
Reading notes
- On Anger §3.12 Speusippus
Plato's nephew and successor in the Academy, to whom Plato handed the punishment of a slave because he was himself angry.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §85.18 Speusippus
Speusippus (c. 408-339 BC), Plato's nephew and his immediate successor as head of the Academy; paired with Xenocrates on the sufficiency of virtue.