Xanthippe
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
his wife
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Wife of Socrates, cited as witness to his unchanging tranquil expression.
For this is that countenance, ever the same, which Xanthippe is said to have been wont to declare was in her husband Socrates:
Meditations
Wife of Socrates, mentioned in the anecdote about taking his cloak.
What manner of man was Socrates, girt in the sheepskin, when Xanthippe took the cloak and went out;
Phaedo
Socrates' wife, present with their infant son when the friends arrive, sent away weeping at Crito's instruction.
We went in then and found Socrates just released from his fetters and Xanthippe—you know her—with his little son in her arms, sitting beside him.
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Wife of Socrates, said to have drenched him with foul water, an incident he bore with laughter.
as of Socrates, who took in good part the gibes that were published and seen on the stage against him, and laughed at them no less than when he was drenched with foul water by his wife Xanthippe.
Symposium
Socrates' wife, presented by Antisthenes as exceptionally hard to live with.
Because, he replied, I observe that men who wish to become expert horsemen do not get the most docile horses but rather those that are high-mettled, believing that if they can manage this kind, they will easily handle any other.
If that is your view, Socrates, asked Antisthenes, how does it come that you don’t practise what you preach by yourself educating Xanthippe, but live with a wife who is the hardest to get along with of all the women there are—yes, or all that ever were, I suspect, or ever will be?