Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations
5. Frontmatter XVII
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Socratic Women
8. Rhodogyne and the Tradition of the Amazon Type 13
9. Panthea’s Portrait in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Kalokagathia, Philia, Eros, and Leadership 37
10. Aspasia’s Eidolon in Plato’s Menexenus 59
11. Xanthippe’s Harshness: At the Root of Socrates’ Endurance and Paideutic Mission 79
12. The Myrto Enigma: A Wife on the Side? 103
13. The Wife of Ischomachus and the Two Aspasia in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus 145
14. Theodote and Socrates’ Other Girlfriends 161
15. Hipparchia’s Philosophical Contributions and Her Originality 181
16. Part II: Socratics on Women
17. Women in Antisthenes 203
18. Xenophon’s Women: Women’s Virtue and Women’s Body 225
19. Aristippus’ View of Women: Misogyny or Theoretical Tension? 245
20. Plato’s Women: Extending the Socratic Insight 271
21. Undermining Elite Self-Conceptions: Aspasia in the Platonic Menexenus and Theodote in Xenophon’s Memorabilia 299
22. Women in Common: The Socratic Debate 321
23. Part III: Socratic Philosophy as a Woman
24. Was Socrates a Woman? 347
25. Socrates, Hestia, and the Hearth of the City 371
26. Female Container-Metaphors in Plato and Xenophon: The Chōra and the Oikos 391
27. Female and Feminine in Plato’s Symposium 407
28. The Pregnant Soul and Labor Pains: Female Medical Imagery in Plato 431
29. The Mother and Her Child: The Paradoxes of a Socratic Metaphor 453
30. About the Authors
31. Index Nominum
32. Index Locorum