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Xanthippe (Greek: 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 ...
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Xanthippe, Greece, ancient history
Xanthippe (5th century BC) Socrates' wife and matron of ancient Athens. The couple had three sons, Lamprokles, Sophroniskos and Menexenos, and she is said to have had ...

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Xanthippe (fl. late 5th century bc), matron of ancient Athens, and wife of the philosopher Socrates, with whom she had three sons. She is said to have been highly temperamental, and although there is little reliable evidence for this, her name has become synonymous with an ill-tempered, nagging wife, or shrew.