英语词汇xanthippe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Xanthippe. Legend paints Socrates’ wife Xanthippe as the classic shrew and her name has become proverbial for a quar- relsome, nagging, shrewish woman. In The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare writes: “Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,/ As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd/ As Socrates’ Xanthippe, or a worse,/ She moves me not.” The gossips in Athens talked much of Xanthippe’s terrible temper and she may have literally driven Socrates out into the open and his marketplace discus- sions. But then Socrates may have been a difficult husband, and by most accounts is said to have been unusually ugly and un- couth in appearance. Xenophon writes that Xanthippe’s sterling qualities were recognized by the philosopher, and various his- torians, including Zeller in his Vortrage and Abhandlungen (1875), argue that she has been much maligned, that Socrates was so unconventional as to tax the patience of any woman, as indeed would any man convinced that he has a religious mis- sion on earth. See henpecked.

词汇	xanthippe
词源	Xanthippe. Legend paints Socrates’ wife Xanthippe as the classic shrew and her name has become proverbial for a quar- relsome, nagging, shrewish woman. In The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare writes: “Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,/ As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd/ As Socrates’ Xanthippe, or a worse,/ She moves me not.” The gossips in Athens talked much of Xanthippe’s terrible temper and she may have literally driven Socrates out into the open and his marketplace discus- sions. But then Socrates may have been a difficult husband, and by most accounts is said to have been unusually ugly and un- couth in appearance. Xenophon writes that Xanthippe’s sterling qualities were recognized by the philosopher, and various his- torians, including Zeller in his Vortrage and Abhandlungen (1875), argue that she has been much maligned, that Socrates was so unconventional as to tax the patience of any woman, as indeed would any man convinced that he has a religious mis- sion on earth. See henpecked.
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