Her legacy became anything but silent and she appears in multiple historical works by Plato, Xenophon, Cicero, Athenaeus, and Plutarch.4 It is clear she had an immense impact on her male counterparts, perhaps the most over her live-in lover Pericles. ... Xenophon cites Socrates in the Symposium as saying, "that the female nature is not naturally inferior to the male, except perhaps she lacks wisdom and physical strength," and that it's the "duty of the husband to teach their young wives to be good companions, so they might be able to engage in dialogue....

• Word Count: 2630
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography

Her legacy became anything but silent and she appears in multiple historical works by Plato, Xenophon, Cicero, Athenaeus, and Plutarch.4 It is clear she had an immense impact on her male counterparts, perhaps the most over her live-in lover Pericles. ... Xenophon cites Socrates in the Symposium as saying, "that the female nature is not naturally inferior to the male, except perhaps she lacks wisdom and physical strength," and that it's the "duty of the husband to teach their young wives to be good companions, so they might be able to engage in dialogue....

• Word Count: 2630
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography