Xanthippe

Xanthippe is the wife of Socrates and mother of his three children, Lamprocles (named for her father), Sophroniscus (named for Socrates's father), and Menexenus. She is believed to have been much younger than Socrates, as the children were very young when he died of hemlock poisoning.

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