# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xanthippe
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:00:25.354Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/xanthippe"
name: "Xanthippe"
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description: "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."
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birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     9.142857142857144
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.