Xanthippe

500 BC–400 BC

ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons

aristocrat

Born in Athens

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Xanthippe:

• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
• Plato (428 BC–348 BC)
• Socrates (469 BC–398 BC)
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
• Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)

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