A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Σωφρονίσκος), of Athens, the father of the celebrated Socrates, is described by the ancient Greek writers as λιθουργός, λιθοξόος, λιθογλύφος, ἑρμογλύφος, terms which undoubtedly signify a sculptor in marble, and not, as Hemsterhusius and others have supposed, merely a mason. (D. L. 2.18; Lucian, Somn. 12, vol. i. p. 18; comp. Hemsterh. ad loc. ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Cl. 773 ; V. Max. 3.4, ext. 1 ; Thiersch, Epochen, p. 125.) He must have flourished about B. C. 470, and have belonged to the old Attic school, which preceded that of Pheidias, and to a family of Athenian artists, for Socrates is frequently represented, both by Xenophon and Plato, as tracing his descent from Daedalus. (Comp. SOCRATES, p. 847b, p. 856a; DAEDALUS, p. 928b.) No works of Sophroniscus are mentioned.

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