Xanthippe
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| - | [[Xanthippe empties the chamber-pot over the head of Socrates]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_and_Xanthippe.jpg] | ||
| - | [[Xanthippe]] empties the [[chamber-pot]] over the head of [[Socrates]]. In the background a man is bullying an elderly couple in a sailing-ship. | + | '''Xanthippe''' ({{lang-el|Ξανθίππη}}) was the wife of [[Socrates]] and mother of their three sons [[Lamprocles]],Sophroniscus, and [[Menexenus]]. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than the philosopher, perhaps by as much as forty years. |
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| - | From [[Emblemata Horatiana, Imaginibus In Aes Incisis Atque Latino, Germanico, Gallico Et Belgico Carmine Illustrata]] by [[Otho Vaenius]], 1607. | + | |
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Xanthippe (Template:Lang-el) was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons Lamprocles,Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than the philosopher, perhaps by as much as forty years.
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