# Xanthippe

> The wife of Socrates, remembered almost entirely for one ancient dinner-party insult: Antisthenes called her "the most difficult, harshest, painful, ill-tempered" wife, and twenty-four centuries of writers never let it go.

*Ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/xanthippe

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Born:** -500
- **Died:** -400
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Xanthippe was an ancient Athenian who married Socrates, likely around 30 years her senior, and became the mother of their son Lamprocles — possibly also of two others, Sophroniscus and Menexenus. She lived through the 5th and 4th centuries BCE in a city that left almost no record of her beyond her husband's shadow. At Xenophon's Symposium, Antisthenes delivered the line that would define her forever: the most difficult, harsh, and ill-tempered of wives. Every portrayal since has echoed that single characterisation, a reputation built on one man's complaint at a dinner table, preserved because the husband was Socrates.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 58.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 9.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233677)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Xanthippe)
- [Ksantippa](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksantippa)
- [Xanthippe](https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Ксанціпа](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B0)
- [Ксантипа](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0)
- [Xantipa](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xantipa)
- [Xantippa](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xantippa)
- [Xanthippe](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Xanthippe](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Ξανθίππη](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9E%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B8%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%80%CE%B7)
- [Ksantipo](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksantipo)
- [Jantipa](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantipa)
- [Xanthippe](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Xantipa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xantipa)
- [زنتیپی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C)
- [Ksanthippe](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksanthippe)
- [Xanthippe (femme de Socrate)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe_(femme_de_Socrate))
- [קסנתיפה](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94)
- [Xanthippé (Szókratész felesége)](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthipp%C3%A9_(Sz%C3%B3krat%C3%A9sz_feles%C3%A9ge))
- [Xanthippe](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Santippe](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santippe)
- [クサンティッペ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%9A)
- [Ксантиппа](https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B0)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Santippe)
- [Wikiquote](https://uz.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xanthippe)
- [زنتيب](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A8)
- [زنتيب](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A8)

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