Xanthippe

• “R.D. Hicks), tells the following anecdote about Socrates and his wife Xanthippe, which is also preserved in other ancient authors:”

  Laudator Temporis Acti

• “We had Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates," Frank recalled of one recent puppy.”

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• “She feared that her husband's disciples would represent her as another Xanthippe, the shrewish wife of Socrates.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Searcher

• “Xanthippe: I hear there is a HUGE investment going into the upgrades.”

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• “Xanthippe: oh i wish i could promote your comment. instead you get a heart click and 7 internets mfusion”

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• “Emancipor Reese - married to a woman who gives off an impression that Xanthippe was her kind grandmother, having two kids who are probably not of his own seed and on top of that being followed by a severe case of bad luck - is a character you can't help but sympathise with, even though you never really get attached to him.”

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• “In fact, Xanthippe is described as a difficult woman to say the very least.”

  Times are hard... for philosophers...

• “Just an old lady, who knows, a Xanthippe, when she sees one.”

  Judgment, character and experience

• “Duci volunt, non cogi: though she be as arrant a scold as Xanthippe, as cruel as Medea, as clamorous as Hecuba, as lustful as Messalina, by such means (if at all) she may be reformed.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Good men have often ill wives, as bad as Xanthippe was to Socrates,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

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