Xanthippe
Ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons · Historical Figures · Lived 500 BC to 400 BC · aged 100
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Something wrong?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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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.
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