Phaenarete
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Alcibiades 1
Socrates's mother, named alongside Sophroniscus in Socrates's formal self-identification.
Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias, it seems, neither had nor has any lover except one only, and that a cherished one, Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus and Phaenarete.
Theaetetus
Socrates's mother, described as a noble and vigorous midwife.
Have you then not heard, you absurd boy, that I am the son of a noble and burly midwife, Phaenarete?