Hermocrates

Hermocrates is one of the participants in Plato’s Dialogue Timaeus. Some scholars argue that Plato intended to write a trilogy of dialogues which included Timaeus and Critias with Hermocrates as the third dialogue with the tantalising possibility of further references to Atlantis.

In Critias 108 it is implied that Hermocrates has a major contribution to make, as it twice mentions that he is due to deliver a speech, apparently the following day.

Historically, Hermocrates is believed to have been a Sicilian statesman and the general who defeated an Athenian assault on his native Syracuse circa 414 BC.