Phaenarete (Greek Φαιναρέτη, born c. 484 BC), wife of Sophroniscus, was the mother of the Greek philosopher Socrates and his half-brother, Patrocles. (Since...
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Phaenarete is a monotypic moth genus in the subfamily Arctiinae. Its single species, Phaenarete diana, is found in Panama and Costa Rica. Both the genus...
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Sophroniscus (Greek: Σωφρονίσκος, Sophroniskos), husband of Phaenarete, was the father of the philosopher Socrates. Little is known about Sophroniscus...
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significance. Socrates was born in 470 or 469 BC to Sophroniscus and Phaenarete, a stoneworker and a midwife, respectively, in the Athenian deme of Alopece;...
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more suitable to invoke than Pericles' Aspasia, such as Socrates' mother Phaenarete, said by Socrates to have been a midwife. He further notes that male medical...
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331–338. SOCRATES, son of the statuary Sophroniscus and of the midwife Phaenarete, was born at Athens, not earlier than 471 nor later than May or June 469...
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Paramyopsyche Paraplastis Paraplesis Parascepsis Parastatia Patreliura Pezaptera Phaenarete Phaeosphecia Phaio Phoeniostacta Pleurosoma Poecilosoma Pompiliodes Pompilopsis...
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who notes the existence of alternative midwifery models besides that of Phaenarète, the philosopher's mother. To account for the anomalous absence of males...
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Elis Phaedra Phaedra complex Phaedrus (Athenian) Phaedrus the Epicurean Phaenarete Phaenias of Eresus Phaenon Phaenops Phaethon Phaethon of Syria Phaethon...
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"The unexamined life is not worth living" Family Sophroniscus (father) Phaenarete (mother) Xanthippe (wife) Lamprocles (son) Menexenus (son) Myrto (wife)...
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included her daughter in that genealogy. Bourgeois traced her ancestry to Phaenarete, a midwife and the mother of Socrates, who, Bourgeois asserted, adopted...
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Paurophleps Pelochyta Pelosia Pezaptera Phacusa Phacusosia Phaegoptera Phaenarete Phaeomolis Phaeophlebosia Phaeosia Phaeosphecia Phaio Phaloe Phaloesia...
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