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Her name now means any nagging scolding person, especially a shrewish wife. According to some sources, Socrates later remarried. Socrates' saying "Marry or marry not, in any case you'll regret it" was supposedly in contemplation of his wife. The following Clerihew was written about her: :Whenever Xanthippe :Wasn't feeling too chippy :She would say to Socrates: :"Why can't you have been Hippocrates ?" LITERARY REFERENCES In Shakespeare 's Taming Of The Shrew , Petruchio compares Katherina ''"As Socrates' Xanthippe or a worse"'' in Act 1 Scene 2. ( Read here ) The English Victorian poet Amy Levy wrote a dramatic monologue called "Xantippe". ( Read here ) DISAMBIGUITY Additionally, in Greek Mythology , Xanthippe/Xantippe is a daughter of Dorus who bore Agenor to Pleuron son of Aetolus . There is also a Xanthippe who is the lead character in an anonymous work of New Testament Apocrypha entitled the '' Acts Of Xanthippe, Polyxena, And Rebecca ''. |
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