Miscellanies 4.19.122
Summary: More learned women: Arete who taught her son, Plato's women students, Aspasia who taught Socrates and Pericles, and women poets and painters.
Greek text · Stählin 2:302
Ἀρήτη δὲ ἡ Ἀριστίππου ἡ Κυρηναϊκὴ τὸν Μητροδίδακτον ἐπικληθέντα ἐπαίδευσεν Ἀρίστιππον. παρὰ Πλάτωνί τε ἐφιλοσόφουν Λασθένεια ἡ Ἀρκαδία καὶ Ἀξιοθέα ἡ Φλιασία· Ἀσπασίας γὰρ τῆς Μιλησίας, περὶ ἧς καὶ οἱ κωμικοὶ πολλὰ δὴ καταγράφουσιν, Σωκράτης μὲν ἀπέλαυσεν εἰς φιλοσοφίαν, Περικλῆς δὲ εἰς ῥητορικήν. παραπέμπομαι τοίνυν τὰς ἄλλας διὰ τὸ μῆκος τοῦ λόγου, μήτε τὰς ποιητρίας καταλέγων, Κόρινναν καὶ Τελέσιλλαν Μυῖάν τε καὶ Σαπφώ, ἢ τὰς ζωγράφους, καθάπερ Εἰρήνην τὴν Κρατίνου θυγατέρα καὶ Ἀναξάνδραν τὴν Νεάλκους, ἃς φησι Δίδυμος ἐν Συμποσιακοῖς.
English · Claude translation
Arete of Cyrene, daughter of Aristippus, educated Aristippus, called “the Mother-taught.” With Plato there philosophized Lastheneia of Arcadia and Axiothea of Phlius. For of Aspasia of Miletus, about whom the comic poets write much, Socrates made use for philosophy and Pericles for rhetoric. I pass over the others because of the length of the discussion, not listing the poetesses, Corinna and Telesilla, Myia and Sappho, nor the painters, such as Irene, daughter of Cratinus, and Anaxandra, daughter of Nealces, of whom Didymus speaks in his Symposiaca.
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- Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ἃς): Ἀναξάνδραν τὴν Νεάλκους, ἅς φησι Δίδυμος → Ἀναξάνδραν τὴν Νεάλκους, ἃς φησι Δίδυμος.
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.19.122 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/19/122/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.19.122 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/19/122/).
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