Xanthippe

Xanthippe in Wikipedia

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 are facts. She was likely much younger than the philosopher, perhaps by as much as forty years.[1] Name Xanthippe means "blonde horse", from the Greek ξανθός "xanthos" (blonde) ...

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Xanthippé in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξανθίππη). The wife of the Athenian philosopher Socrates. Many anecdotes have come down in the pages of ancient writers regarding this famous woman, whose name has become proverbial in all languages as that of a typical shrew. It is likely, however, that many of these are apocryphal, and that, on the other hand, there was much in the unpractical w...

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