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Xanthippe (/ zænˈθɪpi /; Greek: Ξανθίππη [ksantʰíppɛː]; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as 40 years. [1] In Xenophon 's Symposium, she is described by ...
The original source for the claim that she was Socrates' wife appears to have been a work by Aristotle called On Being Well-Born, [1] [2] [3] although Plutarch expresses doubt that the work is genuine. She was apparently the daughter, [3] or, more probably, the granddaughter of Aristides. [2]
Socrates. Socrates (/ ˈsɒkrətiːz /, [2] Greek: Σωκράτης, translit. Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known ...
Marble portrait herm identified by an inscription as Aspasia, possibly copied from her grave. [1] Aspasia (/ æˈspeɪʒ (i) ə, - ziə, - ʃə /; [2] Greek: Ἀσπασία Greek: [aspasíaː]; c. 470 – after 428 BC [a]) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman ...
The wife of Socrates can be seen grieving alone outside the chamber, dismissed for her weakness. Plato is depicted as an old man seated at the end of the bed." Critics compared the Socrates with Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and one, after ten visits to the Salon, described it as "in every sense perfect".
He tells how he had visited Socrates early in the morning with the others. Socrates's wife Xanthippe was there, but was very distressed and Socrates asked that she be taken away. Socrates relates how, bidden by a recurring dream to "make and cultivate music", he wrote a hymn and then began writing poetry based on Aesop's Fables. [6]
The English painter Joshua Reynolds wrote that The Death of Socrates was "the greatest work of art since the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Stanze in the Vatican." [9] The American minister to France, Thomas Jefferson, wrote that the painting was the best work at the Salon of 1787, and that the painting was "superb". [2]
e. The Charmides (/ ˈkɑːrmɪdiːz /; Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as " temperance," "self-control," or "restraint." When the boy is unable to satisfy him with ...