What was the name of Socrates' wife?

Famed for her shrewishness, the wife of the fifth-century B.C. Athenian philosopher Socrates was named Xantippe.

Who was older, Beatrice or Dante? Born in 1266, Beatrice Portinari, wife of Simone de' Bardi, was Dante's junior by one year. They were in their youth when Dante (1265-1321) fell in love with her. She died in 1290,…
Whom did Jonathan Swift call “Stella”? "Stella" was Esther Johnson, a woman Swift once tutored at the household of Sir William Temple in England. Swift's letters to Johnson and her companion Rebecca Dingley, written from 1710 to 1713, are…
How long was novelist and critic Rebecca West (1892-1983) the lover of H. G. Wells? After Rebecca West's review of H. G. Wells's book, Marriage, in 1912, they met and began their ten-year relationship. Their son, Anthony West, born in 1914, became a novelist and critic in his…
How did Jack Kerouac die? The author of On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac died at age forty-seven on October 21, 1969, of a massive gastric hemorrhage associated with alcoholism, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Which New York criminal mastermind was nicknamed Mr. Big? Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928) was nicknamed Mr. Big. Arnold Rothstein financed the criminal operations of Lucky Luciano, Legs Diamond, and others. Also known as the Brain, the Fixer, and the Man Uptown, Rothstein was…
Who played the first four Roman emperors on the TV series “I, Claudius” (BBC, 1976)? Brian Blessed played Augustus, George Baker played Tiberius, John Hurt played Caligula, and Derek Jacobi played Claudius, on the TV series "I, Claudius" (BBC, 1976).