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Xanthippe
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Xanthippe (; Ancient Greek: Ξανθίππη [ksantʰíppɛː]; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their son Lamprocles; she may also have been the mother of his other sons Sophroniscus and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by around 30 years. In Xenophon's Symposium, she is described by Antisthenes as "the most difficult, harshest, painful, ill-tempered" wife; this characterisation of Xanthippe has influenced all subsequent portrayals of her.
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why Aristophanes, who so frequently made Socrates the butt of his ridicule, neglected to have him run on the stage shouting: "Where is she, where is she, so that I may kill her, i.e., my unfaithful Xanthippe." For really it does not matter greatly whether or no Socrates was made a cuckold, and all that Xanthippe may do in this regard is wasted labor, like snapping one's fingers in one's pocket; for Socrates remains…
Søren Kierkegaard, Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
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CALLICLES: By all means. SOCRATES: I think that I am the only or almost the only Athenian living who practises the true art of politics; I am the only politician of my time.
Plato, Gorgias
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59, 60; invasion of Greece, v. 451, 452. Year, length of, in different planets, iii. 147. Zaleucus, laws of, ii. 315. Zaratas, ii. 327. Zeno, saying of, i. 56; anecdotes of, 72, 142, 283; ii. 321, 365, 455; quoted, 467, 481; iii. 25, 113, 125, 128; his definition of virtue, 462; anecdote of, iv. 225; v. 382. Zenocrates, v. 288, 377, 441. Zeuxidamus, apothegm of, i. 410. Zeuxippus, dialogue on health, i. 251-279; ii…
Plutarch, Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1
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Philosophers who discussed Xanthippe
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- Roger Scruton
- Aristophanes
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Phaedo
- Classical Athens
- Athenaeus
- Plato
- Socrates
- Age of Enlightenment
- William Shakespeare
- Xenophon
- Christine de Pizan
- Diogenes Laertius
- Apology (Plato)
- Antisthenes
- Symposium (Xenophon)
- Menexenus
- Lamprocles
- Myrto
Place in the tradition
Part of Socrates.