Clitomachus

Clitomachus, a Carthaginian by birth, becomes head of the Academy, and Diogenes Laërtius places him in a dense web of Socratic anecdote: Socrates barefoot in a cloak, mocked by comic poets, praised by Xenophon as the most delightful of men in conversation. The passages around him dwell on Socrates' power to turn men — Euthyphron from prosecuting his father, Glaucon from politics, Charmidas toward it — and on his insistence that leisure is the most valuable possession. Clitomachus matters as the inheritor of a tradition whose founder's charisma is still being argued over centuries later.